Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
23 Quotes
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
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
"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."
Herbert Spencer
"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance."
Herbert Spencer
"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
Herbert Spencer
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
Herbert Spencer
"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
Herbert Spencer
"Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror."
Herbert Spencer
"All socialism involves slavery."
Herbert Spencer
"Government is essentially immoral."
Herbert Spencer
"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'."
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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
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
"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
"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
Herbert Spencer
"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 Spencer
"All Socialism involves slavery."
Herbert Spencer
"Science is organized knowledge."
Herbert Spencer
"Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him."
Herbert Spencer
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