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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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 idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
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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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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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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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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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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
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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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