Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 27, 1820 Death: December 8, 1903
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill worki….
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct..
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accom….
Education has for its object the formation of character..
To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by….
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced..
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by transl….
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world..
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, ….
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents..
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small com….
When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agre….
We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is ….
We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate in….
And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest….
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature..
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom..
The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant ….
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..
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one..