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
freedom men people
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?
freedom men liberty
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.
survival evolution multiplication
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
men ideas moral
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
men support connections
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.
prejudice racial-justice
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
teacher children character
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.
feelings intuition opinion
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
wise time past
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
law giving survival
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.
liberty libertarian slavery
All socialism involves slavery.
liberty benefits libertarian
Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
courage risk bold-actions
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
inspirational education learning
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.