Herbert Spencer

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

"Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life."

There is a principle that is a bar against all information and proof against all arguments, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.  That principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The behaviour of men to the lower animals, and their behaviour to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell . . . that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.

Government is essentially immoral.

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.

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