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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.