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Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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.
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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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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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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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Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.
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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.
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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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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
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The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
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In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
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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.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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