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Famous Herbert Spencer Quotes
“Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.”
“Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.”
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
“Government is essentially immoral.”
“In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.”
“We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.”
“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”
“We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.”
“What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.”
“Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.”
“Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.”
“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”
“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.”
“During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.”
“Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.”
“A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.”
“People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.”
“The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.”
“Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.”