Quotes by Herbert Spencer
| Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. |
| How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. |
| Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. |
| The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. |
| If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making |
| The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. |
| Education has for its object the formation of character. |
| Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. |