Herbert Spencer

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

"Education has for its object the formation of character. "

"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. "

"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 "

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

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

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

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