The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
HERBERT SPENCERThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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.
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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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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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