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• A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ignorance, Men, Average

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

  Herbert Spencer

  Recognition, Manifestation, All Things

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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.

  Herbert Spencer

  People, Ignorant, Atheism

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• Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

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  Children, Men, Gentleman

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• A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

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  Life, Change, Moments

  Principles of Biology Pt I, Ch. 4, Sect. 25

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• Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

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  Courage, Risk, Bold Actions

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• Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

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  Balance, Life Is, Life Balance

  Herbert Spencer (1891). “Essays: scientific, political, & speculative. Libr. ed”

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• Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

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  Men, Law, Evil

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• Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

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  Pain, Tides, Pleasure

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.79, VM eBooks

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• If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

  Herbert Spencer

  Freedom, Men, People

  Herbert Spencer, John Offer (1994). “Spencer: Political Writings”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

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  Teacher, Children, Character

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.201

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• Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

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  Sculpture, May, Architecture

  Herbert Spencer (2012). “Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library”, p.73, tredition

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• Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

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  Race, Morality, Boundaries

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.249, VM eBooks

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• The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

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  Strong, Poverty, Misery

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.73, VM eBooks

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• The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

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  Health, Exercise, Atheism

  1861 Education, ch.4.

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• Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.

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  Results, Delinquency

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “The Study of Sociology”, p.385

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• A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

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  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Herbert Spencer (1978). “The Principles of Ethics”

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• The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

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  Light, White, Poetry

  Herbert Spencer (1871). “Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic”, p.31

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• If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.

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  Men, Support, Connections

  Herbert Spencer (2014). “The Right to Ignore the State”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

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  Ethics, Existence, Solutions

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.269, VM eBooks

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• The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

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  Beauty, Skins, Skin Deep

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays--scientific, political and speculative”, p.424

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• Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

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  Civilization, Barbarism, Militarism

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• When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

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  Men, Order, Justice

  Herbert Spencer (1902). “Facts and Comments”

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• The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

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  Individual Happiness, Limits, Firsts

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.169, VM eBooks

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• All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?

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  Responsibility, Community, Desire

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