About Herbert Spencer: Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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.
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.
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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.
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.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
