Herbert Spencer

22 quotes

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."

Herbert Spencer

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

Herbert Spencer

"Evolution. . . is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite coherent heterogeneity."

Herbert Spencer

"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."

Herbert Spencer

"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?"

Herbert Spencer

"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."

Herbert Spencer

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

Herbert Spencer

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

Herbert Spencer

"There is one thing that will keep a man in everlasting ignorance and poverty. That one thing is contempt prior to investigation."

Herbert Spencer

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

Herbert Spencer

"Science is organised knowledge."

Herbert Spencer

"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."

Herbert Spencer

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

Herbert Spencer

"Evolution. . . is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite coherent heterogeneity."

Herbert Spencer

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."

Herbert Spencer

"There is one thing that will keep a man in everlasting ignorance and poverty. That one thing is contempt prior to investigation."

Herbert Spencer

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

Herbert Spencer

"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?"

Herbert Spencer

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

Herbert Spencer

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

Herbert Spencer

"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."

Herbert Spencer

"Science is organised knowledge."

Herbert Spencer