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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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.
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Lusts are like agues the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.
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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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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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Policeman are soldiers who act alone soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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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.
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