Herbert Spencer Quotes
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
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.
Herbert Spencer
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
Herbert Spencer