Herbert Spencer quotes

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

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.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

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

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

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.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

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

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

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

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

Science is organized knowledge.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Government is essentially immoral.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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.

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