Quote

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Herbert Spencer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
Botanist
Economist
Journalist
Philosopher
Psychologist
Sociologist
Writer
Derby
Derbyshire
Spencert
Gerbert Spencer
Life
People
Requisite
Beginning
Animal
Success
Firsts
First
Good

More quotes by Herbert Spencer

Image
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
Herbert Spencer
Image
No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
Herbert Spencer
Image
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.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Herbert Spencer
Image
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.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Herbert Spencer
Image
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.
Herbert Spencer
Image
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Herbert Spencer
Image
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.
Herbert Spencer