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• Education is preparation to live completely.

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  Education, Preparation

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• Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

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  Hero, Political, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.461

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• Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

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  Men, Atheism, Equal

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.522, VM eBooks

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• 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.

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  Courage, Truth, Book

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• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

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  Ideas, Misuse, Mislead

  'Principles of Ethics' bk. 1 (1879) pt. 2, ch. 8, 152

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• 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.

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  Skills, Political, Humanity

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• This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

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  Science, Survival, Evolution

  'Principles of Biology' (1865) pt. 3, ch. 12, 164.

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• Science is organized knowledge.

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  Science, Management, Organized

  Education ch. 2 (1861)

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• Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

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  Truth, Lying, Opinion

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• Government is essentially immoral.

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  Government, Immoral

  Herbert Spencer (2014). “The Right to Ignore the State”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

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  Brain, Feds, Ill

  Herbert Spencer (1919). “Synthetic Philosophy ...”

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• The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

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  Motivational, Men, Self

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.206

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• The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

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  Science, Energy, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Home, Civilization, Important

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

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  Civilization, Progress, Definite

  "First Principles", Chapter XVI. Par. 138; also Chapter XVII. Par. 145, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 241-42, 1922.

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• The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

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  Fear, Infidelity

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• What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

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  Selfish, Men, Law

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.14, VM eBooks

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• 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.

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  People, Ignorant, Atheism

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• 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.

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  Mother, Children, Sleep

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• Education has for its object the formation of character.

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  Education, Teaching, Learning

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 2, ch. 17, 4

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• 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.

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  Love, Rewards, Wealth

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• Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

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  Recognition, Manifestation, All Things

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• Reading is seeing by proxy.

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  Reading, Library, Proxy

  Herbert Spencer (1874). “The Study of Sociology”, p.364, London, D. Appleton

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• Every cause produces more than one effect.

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  Causes, Ethics, Produce

  "Progress: Its Law and Cause" (1857)

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• Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

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  Giving Up, Religion, Dogma

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.109

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