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Herbert Spencer Quotes

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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 Quotes) A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Liberty is not the right of one, but of all  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) Evil perpetually tends to disappear  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) A nation’s institutions and beliefs are determined by it’s character  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) 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 Quotes) Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men’s lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) When you take comprehensive, then we’re dealing with certain issues like full citizenship... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that’s a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty  (Herbert Spencer Quotes) If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?  (Herbert Spencer Quotes)
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