In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCERHow often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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