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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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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
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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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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 essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
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The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
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Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
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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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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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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
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The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
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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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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.
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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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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.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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