Author Profile
Herbert Spencer
1820 – 1903 • English • Philosopher
41
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 41 quotesThe fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.— Herbert Spencer
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.— Herbert Spencer
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.— Herbert Spencer
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.— Herbert Spencer
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.— Herbert Spencer
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.— Herbert Spencer
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.— Herbert Spencer
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.— Herbert Spencer
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.— Herbert Spencer
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.— Herbert Spencer
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.— Herbert Spencer