57 ordspråk av Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations
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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.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit
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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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No one can be perfectly free till all are free.
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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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of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect
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Or it needs only to look back over past centuries and the iniquities alike of populace, nobles, kings, and popes to perceive an almost incomprehensible futility of the beliefs everywhere held and perpetually insisted upon
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