Quotes by Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

British Philosopher

Lived from: 1820 - 1903

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 27 april 1820 Died: 8 december 1903

  • Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

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  • A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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  • A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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  • Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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  • Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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  • Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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  • Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite coherent heterogeneity.
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  • How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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  • It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happinessproducing conduct.
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  • Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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  • 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.
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  • Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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  • Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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  • Opinion is ultimately determined by feelings, and not by the intellect.
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  • People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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  • Science is organized knowledge.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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  • There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
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  • Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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What are the most famous quotes from Herbert Spencer?

The two most famous quotes from Herbert Spencer are:

  • "A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance."
  • "A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."

When did Herbert Spencer live?

Herbert Spencer was born in 1820 and died in the year 1903.