- Change theme
Quotes by Herbert Spencer
- The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
- The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
- The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
- The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
- Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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