Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
Herbert Spencer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
Botanist
Economist
Journalist
Philosopher
Psychologist
Sociologist
Writer
Derby
Derbyshire
Spencert
Gerbert Spencer
Received
Operations
Basis
Bases
Benefits
Universal
Rendered
Operation
Services
More quotes by Herbert Spencer
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.
Herbert Spencer
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
Herbert Spencer
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.
Herbert Spencer
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
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also only of a less intense kind.
Herbert Spencer
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
Herbert Spencer
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
Herbert Spencer
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
Herbert Spencer
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
Herbert Spencer
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
Herbert Spencer
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
Herbert Spencer
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Herbert Spencer
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
Herbert Spencer
In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
Herbert Spencer
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Herbert Spencer
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer
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.
Herbert Spencer
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
Herbert Spencer
