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There are 18 quotes for the author Herbert Spencer

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Subject: Education

The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

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.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Government is essentially immoral.

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