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Herbert Spencer

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

Man, Confusion, Will

Herbert Spencer

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

Human Spirit, Human, Fine

Herbert Spencer

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

Change, Ideas, Important

Herbert Spencer

Science is organized knowledge.

Knowledge, Organized

Herbert Spencer

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.

Government, Human Nature

Herbert Spencer

All Socialism involves slavery.

Herbert Spencer

Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.

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.

analogy, biology, cell, common-ancestor, embryology, evolution, heredity, homo-sapiens, human, millions-of-years, origin, science, understanding, universal-common-ancestor

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.

artist, hero, spencer, the-story-of-philosophy

Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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.

erroneous, goodness, shakespeare, truth, william-shakespeare

Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.