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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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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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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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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
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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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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
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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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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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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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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.
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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 too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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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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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
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