Quotes By Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.