Herbert Spencer Quotes
An English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era.
(1820 - 1903)
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
[Change]
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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.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilized life.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
[Education]
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Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
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Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
[Marriage]
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