Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencerwas an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 April 1820
government risk reign
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
stones golden philosopher
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
sex men differences
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
music art spirit
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
strong agency effort
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
education teaching character
Education has for its object the formation of character.
liberty libertarian citizens
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.
men sin aggression
Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
causes ethics produce
Every cause produces more than one effect.
survival external-forces function
It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
desire coercion slavery
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
hero political atheism
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
play billiards youth
To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth
life reality relation
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.