Herbert Spencer Quotes

English - Philosopher | April 27, 1820 - December 8, 1903

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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EducationKnowledgeGreatActionAim

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

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LifeAdjustmentExternalInternal

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

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

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

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MarriageWordShouldMirageWhich

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

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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.

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LifeLoveLove IsEndingEndReward

All socialism involves slavery.

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

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

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SocietyBenefitMembersExists

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.

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