Quote

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

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
Music
Human
Humans
Ministers
Welfare
Musical
Art

More quotes by Herbert Spencer

Image
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.
Herbert Spencer
Image
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
Image
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
Herbert Spencer
Image
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.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer
Image
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
Herbert Spencer
Image
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
Herbert Spencer
Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Herbert Spencer
Image
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.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer