A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. Herbert Spencer More Quotes by Herbert Spencer More Quotes From Herbert Spencer Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements. Herbert Spencer special law average Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence. Herbert Spencer ignorant atheism people The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings. Herbert Spencer moral essentials feelings The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home. Herbert Spencer important home civilization 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. Herbert Spencer hate impossible feelings We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. Herbert Spencer taxes freedom Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. Herbert Spencer liberty exercise men The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence. Herbert Spencer misery poverty strong People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end. Herbert Spencer mistake men mean Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. Herbert Spencer gentleman men children To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth Herbert Spencer billiards gambling play The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying. Herbert Spencer skin-deep skins beauty Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds. Herbert Spencer hardship echoes soul The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. Herbert Spencer speech mother children No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. Herbert Spencer philosopher golden stones A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character. Herbert Spencer determined military character Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression. Herbert Spencer aggression sin men During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. Herbert Spencer humanity science art Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage". Herbert Spencer marriage relationship funny No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words. Herbert Spencer phrases eye ideas
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