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

- Herbert Spencer

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

- Herbert Spencer

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

- Herbert Spencer

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

- Herbert Spencer

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

- Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

- Herbert Spencer

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

- Herbert Spencer

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

- Herbert Spencer

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

- Herbert Spencer

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

- Herbert Spencer

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

- Herbert Spencer

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.

- Herbert Spencer

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

- Herbert Spencer

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

- Herbert Spencer

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

- Herbert Spencer

Government is essentially immoral.

- Herbert Spencer

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

- Herbert Spencer

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

- Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character.

- Herbert Spencer

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

- Herbert Spencer