Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
HERBERT SPENCERNo one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
-
-
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Every cause produces more than one effect.
HERBERT SPENCER -
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
HERBERT SPENCER -
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 SPENCER -
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCER -
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCER -
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCER -
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Government is essentially immoral.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
HERBERT SPENCER