Spencer, Herbert

"Music is a religion more universal than any church."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The principle of equal freedom can admit of no exceptions."

"Every individual is either growing or decaying; either advancing or going backward."

"The most important part of wisdom is knowing the limitations of knowledge."

"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory."

"The supreme principle of morality is the determination to act justly."

"In the long run the truth will out, though it may take a long time."

"The phenomenal world exists only through the unceasing action of forces."

"Whoever lives without creed is necessarily governed by his nature."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time."

"Civilization is the development from military tyranny to industrial freedom."

"Every penalty in its last resort must rest on the principle of retaliation."

"The genesis of thought is in solitude."

"Happiness is an achievement and must be striven for."

"The perception of relations is the essential condition of intelligence."

"A society is not in a healthy state when its members are not predominantly engaged in productive work."

"The sentiment of pity is one of the highest moral sentiments."

"True morality does not consist in following rules but in being adapted to circumstances."

"The multiplication of means and methods for getting to truth has not proportionally increased belief in and allegiance to truth."

"Adventure is the vitalization of existence."

"The ultimate end of man is not action but contemplation."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge in the progressive development of human faculty."

"Life is preserved by the destruction of other life."

"The mechanism of thought is the association of ideas."

"Obedience to the moral law is not optional but imperative."

"The survival of the fittest is the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."

"Militancy and industrialism cannot coexist indefinitely."