Herbert Spencer

“Survival of the fittest.”

“Education has for its object the formation of character.”

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

“Science is organized knowledge.”

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”

“Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.”

“No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”

“Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.”

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”

“How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.”

“Every cause produces more than one effect.”

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

“The preservation of health is a duty.”

“All socialism involves slavery.”

“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”

“Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of anarchy.”