Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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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