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During human progress, every ...

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

If there be an order in which...

If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

Practical atheism, seeing no ...

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

It is a commonly observed fac...

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

I emphasize the reply that th...

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

Regarding language as an appa...

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

The primary use of knowledge ...

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

A nation's institutions and b...

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

No philosopher's stone of a c...

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

As there must be moderation i...

As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

Religion is the recognition t...

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

To play billiards well was a ...

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

Let men learn that a legislat...

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

Policeman are soldiers who ac...

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

Be it or be it not true that ...

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

Education has for its object ...

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

In assuming any office beside...

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

Music may appeal to crude and...

Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

... those who have never ente...

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

People ... become so preoccup...

People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.

Herbert Spenser 193 quotes

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