When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty. Herbert Spencer More Quotes by Herbert Spencer More Quotes From Herbert Spencer Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. Herbert Spencer morality race boundaries Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer learning teaching education People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. Herbert Spencer success animal people Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose. Herbert Spencer doe feelings culture Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. Herbert Spencer regulation pain way A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. Herbert Spencer organization law science All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed. Herbert Spencer light organization evil However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. Herbert Spencer minorities liberty rights Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies. Herbert Spencer delinquency results In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man. Herbert Spencer perfection self men The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants. Herbert Spencer work-out suffering perfect Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others. Herbert Spencer risk self courage The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary. Herbert Spencer use-of-knowledge guidance circumstances Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. Herbert Spencer distress hard adversity The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad. Herbert Spencer infidelity fear Noiseless falls the foot of time Herbert Spencer flower time fall Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints. Herbert Spencer errors men life If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little. Herbert Spencer science children knowledge In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me. Herbert Spencer achievement art thinking Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered. Herbert Spencer learning teacher memories
