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.
HERBERT SPENCERHow often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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