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Quotes by Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
 
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"Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life."

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
 
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all arguments
and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.
That principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
 
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There is a principle that is a bar against all information and proof against all arguments, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.  That principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
 
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
 
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The behaviour of men to the lower animals, and their behaviour to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
 
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It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell . . . that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Source: Life and Letters of Spencer.
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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Source: Definitions
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Source: Social Statics, 1850
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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 (1820 - 1903)
Source: Principles of Biology. Indirect Equilibration.
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