Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencerwas an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 April 1820
Herbert Spencer quotes about
freedom men people
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?
survival evolution multiplication
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
wise time past
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
science organized
Science is organized knowledge.
knowledge men order
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
ideas misuse mislead
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
health exercise atheism
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
adversity distress hard
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
marriage wise passion
If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.
desire coercion slavery
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
sex men differences
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
civilization progress homogeneity
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
music art spirit
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
progress accidents
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.