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 Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . . Herbert Spencer dogma giving-up religion Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed. Herbert Spencer purpose men thinking Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare. Herbert Spencer music spirit art The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. Herbert Spencer atheism emotional intellectual Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Herbert Spencer relation life reality Government is essentially immoral. Herbert Spencer immoral government Every cause produces more than one effect. Herbert Spencer ethics produce causes The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths. Herbert Spencer truth courage book If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children. Herbert Spencer illustration rights children In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one. Herbert Spencer assuming essentials office For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one. Herbert Spencer government children people As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result. Herbert Spencer self long fall 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. Herbert Spencer rewards wealth love 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. Herbert Spencer growth humanity science Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. Herbert Spencer discipline may littles And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest! Herbert Spencer survival people world Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all. Herbert Spencer theory-of-evolution wisdom facts Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. Herbert Spencer always-trying time men Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life. Herbert Spencer life-balance balance life-is In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. Herbert Spencer change science ideas
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