Herbert Spencer Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Inspiring, Wise

  Herbert Spencer (1865). “First Principles of a New System of Philosophy”, p.123

• Education has for its object the formation of character.

  Herbert Spencer

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 2, ch. 17, 4

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

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Reality, Relation

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.24, VM eBooks

• Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

  Herbert Spencer

  Reality, Rumor, May

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

• Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.

  Herbert Spencer

  Reality, Criticism, Negative

  Herbert Spencer (1920). “Synthetic Philosophy ...: First principles. 1920. [v.2-3] The principles of biology. v.1, rev. & enl. ed., 1921”

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