Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
HERBERT SPENCEROpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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