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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
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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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Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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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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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.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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