Quotes by Herbert Spencer

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Science is organized knowledge.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

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.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.