Herbert Spencer on cage
Herbert Spencer40 quotes“What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.”
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer No 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.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer 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.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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