The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Future, Legacy, Wisdom, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Benefit, Individualism, Society, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Read explanation Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Consequences, Folly, Knowledge, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Parenting, Reflection, Responsibility, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Confusion, Knowledge, Order, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Adaptation, Balance, Environment, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Nature, Necessity, Progress, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Feelings, Intellect, Opinion, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Authority, Control, Power, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Morality, Self-control, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Mortality, Paradox, Struggle, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . . Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Conflict, Evolution, Reevaluation, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Conduct, Morality, Pain, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Learning, Life, Working, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Evolution, Fitness, Reproduction, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Character, Development, Gender, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Life, Pain, Pleasure, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Beauty, Superficiality, Truth, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Barbarism, Militarism, Peace, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Fear, Infidelity, Truth, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Coordination, Opinions, Truth, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Eugenics, Evolution, Morality, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Boundaries, Morality, Race, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Adaptation, Instinct, Survival, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Herbert Spencer, Freedom, Tax, 0 Herbert Spencer Copy
People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That’s the trick. Christopher Nolan Film director · United Kingdom
The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex. David James Duncan Novelist · USA
