3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer 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.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is – a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
