English - Philosopher | April 27, 1820 - December 8, 1903
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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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.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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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.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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