Herbert Spencer

The 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.

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

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.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

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

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

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

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

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.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

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

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.

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.

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

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

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.