233 Quotes by Herbert Spencer
"Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity."
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
"A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization."
"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
"Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted."
"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."
"We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way."
"A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind."
"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."