Quotes By Herbert Spencer

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

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.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Science is organized knowledge.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

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.