Quote

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

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
Self
Men
Perfections
Supremacy
Consists
Ideal
Ideals
Perfection
Control

More quotes by Herbert Spencer

Image
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
Image
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.
Herbert Spencer
Image
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
Herbert Spencer
Image
No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
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
In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
Herbert Spencer
Image
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
Image
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert Spencer