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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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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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The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
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When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
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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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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
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In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
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