233 Quotes by Herbert Spencer

"It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct."

"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."

"Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . ."

"Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance."

"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."

"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."

"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."

"Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art."

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."

"Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life."