Quotes by : Herbert Spencer

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

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can....

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

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

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

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Government is essentially immoral.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom,....

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.