Quotes from Herbert Spencer

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

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

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

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

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

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

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

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.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

Government is essentially immoral.