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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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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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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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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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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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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
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Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.
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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
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