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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.
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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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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
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All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.
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We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
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Lusts are like agues the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
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It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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