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Science is organized knowledge.

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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also only of a less intense kind.
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Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
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The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
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Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear so surely must man become perfect.
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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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Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
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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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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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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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