There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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.
All socialism involves slavery.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
Education is preparation to live completely.
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
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