Spencer, Herbert

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

"Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity."

"Time is that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."

"Science is organized knowledge."

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

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

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

"Survival of the fittest."

"Love is life's great beautifier."

"The degree of civilization is measured by the degree of individuation."

"Every cause produces more than one effect."

"No one can be perfectly free till all are free."

"Evolution is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that the human mind has yet devised."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer, he poses the right question."

"There is no greater crime than to suppress the truth."

"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"Happiness is the accompaniment of achievement."

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

"To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment for the mind."

"The function of liberalism is that of adjusting freedom to social order."

"War originates from want of legitimate opportunities to satisfy legitimate desires."

"The preservation of the individual is the ultimate purpose of social existence."

"All things change, nothing perishes."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"We cannot live for ourselves alone."

"There is no thought of which we are not taught daily."

"Lack of nature is lack of sense."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."