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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More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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