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Herbert Spencer
Profession : Philosopher
Birth : April 27, 1820
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
Herbert Spencer
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Herbert Spencer
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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.
Herbert Spencer
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Herbert Spencer
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Herbert Spencer
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
Herbert Spencer
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Herbert Spencer
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