There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.
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.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
All socialism involves slavery.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
Education is preparation to live completely.
Science is organized knowledge.
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
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