black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

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

Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
HERBERT SPENCER

Freedom Human Strong Worship
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
HERBERT SPENCER

Benefit Existence Member Society
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
HERBERT SPENCER

Funny Marriage Word
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
HERBERT SPENCER

Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
All socialism involves slavery.
HERBERT SPENCER

One Liner Politics Slave Social
Every cause produces more than one effect.
HERBERT SPENCER

Effect One Liner Production
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 SPENCER

Color Glass Project Pull See
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCER

Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
HERBERT SPENCER

Cage Law Man Selfish
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCER

Effect Fools Man Result World
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
HERBERT SPENCER

Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Government is essentially immoral.
HERBERT SPENCER

Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
HERBERT SPENCER

Pious Volume Writing
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCER

Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
HERBERT SPENCER

Poetry Pursue Science Surround

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Herbert Spencer Quotes