Herbert Spencer quotes

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. (Herbert 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. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Every cause produces more than one effect. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Education has for its object the formation of character. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. View quote
Herbert Spencer
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. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. (Herbert Spencer)
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. View quote
Herbert Spencer
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. View quote
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All socialism involves slavery. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Science is organized knowledge. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Time That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, farseeing be. View quote
Herbert Spencer
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. (Herbert Spencer)
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. View quote
Herbert Spencer
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. View quote
Herbert Spencer