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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
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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 human welfare.
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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
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So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
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Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
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If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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