Quotes By Herbert Spencer

Science is organized knowledge.

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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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.

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

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

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.

Government is essentially immoral.

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

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.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.