A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

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

All socialism involves slavery.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Education has for its object the formation of character.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

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

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

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.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

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.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

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.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

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 Quote

The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
- Herbert Spencer Quote

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
- Herbert Spencer Quote