Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
HERBERT SPENCERPeople are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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