Quote: The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Every cause produces more than one effect. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: 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. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: 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. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: Science is organized knowledge. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: 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. [Herbert Spenser]
Quote: How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. [Herbert Spenser]