Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 27, 1820 Death: December 8, 1903
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her eleva….
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire thes….
We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we….
Science is organized knowledge..
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man..
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prio….
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited..
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it..
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see ho….
It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? ….
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they ur….
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race..
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires..
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced..
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest..
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered..
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of manki….
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man..
In societies of low civilization, there is no money..
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher..
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions..