Quotes By Herbert Spencer

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

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

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

Science is organized knowledge.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

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 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.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

All socialism involves slavery.

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.