Herbert Spencer quotes ?The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.? ? Herbert Spencer
?The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.? ? Herbert Spencer
?Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.? ? Herbert Spencer
?Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.? ? Herbert Spencer
?Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.? ? Herbert Spencer
?The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.? ? Herbert Spencer
?How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.? ? Herbert Spencer
?If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.? ? Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Vol 1
?They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.? ? Herbert Spencer
?No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk.? ? Herbert Spencer, An Autobiography, Part 1
?And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further the survival of the unfittest.? ? Herbert Spencer
?We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.? ? Herbert Spencer, First Principles
?Religions, to the extent that they differ in their stated doctrines, tacitly agree in their belief that the existence of the universe is a mystery that requires interpretation. ? Herbert Spencer
?Science is organized knowledge.? ? Herbert Spencer
?This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. ? Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Vol 1
?Consumptive patients, with lungs incompetent to perform the duties of lungs, people with defective hearts that break down under excitement of the circulation, people with any constitutional flaw preventing the due fulfillment of the conditions of life are continually dying out and leaving behind those fit for the climate, food, and habits to which they are born....And thus is the race kept free from vitiation.? ? Herbert Spencer
?No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.? ? Herbert Spencer
?Increasing power of a growing administrative organization is accompanied by decreasing power of the rest of the society to resist its further growth and control.? ? Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State
?Education has for its object the formation of character.? ? Herbert Spencer
?This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.? ? Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Vol 1
?Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.? ? Herbert Spencer
?When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater is his confusion.? ? Herbert Spencer
"Let science acknowledge that its laws apply only to phenomena and matters of relativism, and let religion recognize that its theology is a myth to justify a faith contrary to reason. Let religion stop depicting God as a great human being, and worse in depicting it with cruelty, treachery, thirst for bloodshed, love of hypocrisy and hypocrisy of people. Let science cease to deny the existence of God, or accept materialism as a Muslim issue. Both mind and matter are relative phenomena, a double cause of a final cause whose nature should remain unknown. Recognizing this mysterious luke is the essence of truth in every religion, and the beginning of philosophy.? ? Herbert Spencer
?Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out of the old unadapted nature -- the index of a character unfitted to its conditions -- and only as fast as the unfitness diminishes can crime diminish.? ? Herbert Spencer