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Philosoph, Theoretiker, "System der synthetischen Philosophie" (England, 1820 - 1903).

Herbert Spencer · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Herbert Spencer wäre heute 205 Jahre, 0 Monate, 17 Tage oder 74.892 Tage alt.

Geboren am 27.04.1820 in Derby
Gestorben am 08.12.1903 in Brighton
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• French art, if not sanguinary, is usually obscene.

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

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• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

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• If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making? Are the coercive edicts issued by him to be regarded as legitimate because they are the ultimate outcome of their own votes?

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• It cannot but happen . . . that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces . . . This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

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• Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

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• 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.

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• Not education, but character is man's greatest need - and man's greatest safeguard.

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

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

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

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• Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity . . . It is a part of nature.

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• Rightness expresses of actions what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

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• Science is organized knowledge.

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• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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• The question of questions for the politicians should ever be - "What type of social structure am I tending to produce?" But this is a question he never entertains.

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• The Republican form of Government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature-a type nowhere at present existing.

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

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

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• There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination.

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