Herbert Spencer - Life Quotes

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

Herbert Spencer
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."

Herbert Spencer
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.

Herbert Spencer
The broadest and most complete definition of Life will be—The continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

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

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

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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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The genuine man of science, we say, can truly know how utterly beyond, not only human knowledge, but human conception, is the Universal Power of which Nature, and Life, and Thought are manifestations. Education

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A higher knowledge tends continually to limit our interference with the processes of life.

Herbert Spencer
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

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Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.

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Either unknowingly or in spite of themselves, Nature leads men by purely personal motives to fulfil her ends: Nature being one of our expressions for the Ultimate Cause of things, and the end, remote when not proximate, being the highest form of human life.

Herbert Spencer