Herbert Spencer Quotes

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 Spencer

Happy, Free, Moral

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
Herbert Spencer

Life, Love, End

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer

Life, Adjustment, Relations

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
Herbert Spencer

Marriage, Word, Mirage

All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer

Socialism, Slavery, Involves

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer

Knowledge, Confusion, Order

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

Men, Ignorance, Average

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer

Happiness, Unexpected, Bring

Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer

Government, Immoral

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer

Men, Result, Fools

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Herbert Spencer

Bold, Everywhere

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer

Words, Thoughts, Often

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Herbert Spencer

Feelings, Opinion, Determined

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer

Living, Moment, Place

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.
Herbert Spencer

Nature, Fact, Desire

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer

Means, Anyone, Divine

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer

Marriage, Through, Put

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 Spencer

Music, Human, Spirit

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert Spencer

Life, Success, Good

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

Ignorance, Group, Average

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer

Progress, Toward, Coherent

Every cause produces more than one effect.
Herbert Spencer

Cause, Effect, Produces

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Herbert Spencer

Freedom, Human, Strongest

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Herbert Spencer

Men, Behavior, Bear

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer

Future, Wise, Past

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 27, 1820

Died: December 8, 1903

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