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 | "Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for
the benefit of society." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The survival of the fittest." | |
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Found in the topic Evolution.
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| "Science is organized knowledge." | |
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Found in the topic Science.
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| "Life is the continuous adjustment of external relations." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is
to fill the world with fools." | |
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Found in the topic Fool.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Government.
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| "A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance." | |
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Found in the topic Average.
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| "When a man"s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the
greater will be his confusion." | |
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Found in the topic Confuse.
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| "To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth." | |
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Found in the topic Games.
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| "Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a
beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely
must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man
become perfect." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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| "Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French
Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so
excessive a regulation of men"s actions in all their details, and such an
enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the
regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if
we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be
the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no
restraints." | |
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Found in the topic Revolution.
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| "Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and
there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds
of straight lines." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "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."" | |
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Found in the topic Race.
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| "Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in
killing him." | |
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Found in the topic Time.
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| "The behaviour of men to the lower animals, and their behaviour to
each other, bear a constant relationship." | |
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Found in the topic Animals.
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