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

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Survival, Evolution

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

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• Government is essentially immoral.

  Herbert Spencer

  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.

  Herbert Spencer

  Brain, Feds, Ill

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

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• All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

  Herbert Spencer

  Desire, Slavery, Coercion

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.37, 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.

  Herbert Spencer

  Courage, Truth, Book

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• Science is organized knowledge.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Management, Organized

  Education ch. 2 (1861)

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• Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

  Herbert Spencer

  Truth, Lying, Opinion

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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.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Energy, Firsts

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• The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

  Herbert Spencer

  Nature, Thinking, Government

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'The Americans'

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• We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

  Herbert Spencer

  Strong, Past, Weak

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.340

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

  Herbert Spencer

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

  Herbert Spencer

  Fear, Infidelity

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

  Herbert Spencer

  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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• 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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• Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

  Herbert Spencer

  Good Life, Healthy, Firsts

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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.

  Herbert Spencer

  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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• We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

  Herbert Spencer

  Freedom, Taxes

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.667, VM eBooks

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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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• 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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• With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

  Herbert Spencer

  Moral, Restriction, Higher

  Herbert Spencer (1899). “The Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Principles of biology”

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

  Herbert Spencer

  Giving Up, Religion, Dogma

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

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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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• The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

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  Government, Kind, Intense

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.176, VM eBooks

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