Herbert Spencer Quotes

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

  Herbert Spencer

• People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

  Herbert Spencer

• Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

  Herbert Spencer

• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

  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

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

  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

• 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.

  Herbert Spencer

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

  Herbert Spencer

• In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

  Herbert Spencer

• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

  Herbert Spencer

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

  Herbert Spencer

• Government is essentially immoral.

  Herbert Spencer

• Every cause produces more than one effect.

  Herbert Spencer

• Education has for its object the formation of character.

  Herbert Spencer

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

  Herbert Spencer

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

  Herbert Spencer

• Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

  Herbert Spencer

• 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

• All socialism involves slavery.

  Herbert Spencer

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Birth:	27th April, 1820
Death:	8th December, 1903
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher, Sociologist

About

Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, Derbyshire, England. He was an English philosopher and sociologist. He developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, astronomy, biology, sociology, and psychology. He is best known for the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology, after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

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