Herbert SpencerThinkers

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

Conscience is a barrier to success.

Education's great aim is not knowledge but action.

Functionalism is a school of thought that places rigorous emphasis on each feature, custom, or practice, to determine its effect on the functioning of a supposedly stable, cohesive system.

Health is our duty to preserve. It is a kind of physical morality, a morality which few seem conscious of.

Health's preservation is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

A Jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

Law is to the selfish man what a cage is to the wild beast.

Marriage is a word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

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

Music is an elaboration of emotional speech.