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ShanthaRMohan: "Science is organized knowledge." - Herbert Spencer

RoyJSnell: Herbert Spencer coined the phrase “The survival of the fittest.” There was a point in our history that the strongest survived and reproduced and the weak did not. The genetic makeup of humans got stronger. That is no longer the case.

CerebralWisdom: Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. - Herbert Spencer

kuye_ade: Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. - Herbert Spencer

CerebralWisdom: Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world. - Herbert Spencer

PaulSchlienz: “They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.” - Herbert Spencer

Lett_Arc: Bob Gill, Cheque. As seen in New Alphabets A to Z by Herbert Spencer & Colin Forbes, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1973. “This freehand alphabet drawn by Gill is an excellent combination of the illustrator’s ability and the typographer’s sense of form.”

ronguerriero: "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—, that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer

feeonline: “They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.” - Herbert Spencer

CerebralWisdom: All socialism involves slavery. - Herbert Spencer

Maisieth59: The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

malikahsantariq: The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer

CerebralWisdom: Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. - Herbert Spencer

ASAPEWS: From its earliest days, sociology had concepts for describing global differences and societal change. From Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer to Emile Durkheim, Ferdinand Tonnies and Lester Frank Ward, 12/

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SoEmileDurkheim: A person who was a good influence on me was Auguste Comte. I agreed with his guide to knowledge through the scientific method. However, I am critical with his idea on the law of three stages. I had also agreed with Herbert Spencer’s idea of the model of society.

CerebralWisdom: How is it that Liberalism, getting more and more into power, has grown more and more coercive in its legislation? - Herbert Spencer

MA_Iliasu: In fact, the sociology unit at CAS is one of the closest things to my heart. Passionate scholars like Ahmad Bala (Karl Marx), Mujibat Abdulsalam (August Comte), the other guy we called Herbert Spencer, and the radical Maryam Hali were all very amazing.

Factsofw0rld: Herbert Spencer, who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest', was the only one of eight siblings to reach adulthood.

ChildFragments: i just searched all my pubs and diss and I can't believe I only mention that bitch herbert spencer once, in passing

PetekPaul: BarAgainstAll Information "There is a principal which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man(woman) in everlasting ignorance ------ that principal is contempt prior to investigation."Herbert Spencer

wuckertgng: The Complete Works of Herbert Spencer: The Principles of Psychology, The Principles of Philosophy, First Principles and More KDYVWMP

VikashC06701700: "Resistance to aggression is not simply justified, but imperative" - Herbert Spencer

DavidCranmerUn1: group consisted of such important scientists as Joseph Dalton Hooker, Herbert Spencer, and John Tyndall, along with another five scientists and mathematicians; these scientists were all avid supporters of Darwin's theory of evolution as common descent, a theory which, during the

CerebralWisdom: Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. - Herbert Spencer

PSurvivalist: "Where, then, is the warrant for the constantly..." - Herbert Spencer

BankableInsight: Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world. - Herbert Spencer

CerebralWisdom: All socialism involves slavery. - Herbert Spencer

PsMann6: No man is equal to his book. – Herbert Spencer

MASCULOUS: "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer

BankableInsight: All socialism involves slavery. - Herbert Spencer

CodesideA: We're starting this week with a quote from Herbert Spencer. Yes, without taking action towards implementing the knowledge you've acquired, you've done nothing. Ensure you implement every piece of knowledge. Your future self will thank you for it.

ancapquotes: "An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature." - Herbert Spencer

williamjumaa55: Science is organized knowledge.,Herbert Spencer,Knowledge, Organized ,

AlsoACarpenter: The sooner we realize that political and evangelical conservatism is just Herbert Spencer's Social Darwinism, the sooner we can address it for what it really is, and maybe make some progress.

TiannaIndigo: I found the book. The last name Gates is also in this book! Herbert Spencer in America. 1882.

ryansteuer: "The aim of education is not knowledge but action." Herbert Spencer

CerebralWisdom: 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. - Herbert Spencer

WomanToday2: From an early age Webb was self-taught and cited as important influences the cooperative movement and the philosopher Herbert Spencer. After her mother's death in 1882 she acted as a hostess and companion for her father. 3/

HELLENMWITA413: Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.,Herbert Spencer,Benefit, Members, Exists ,

trexross602: “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

FieryBlazeNew: Spencer Cox is making me miss Gary Herbert as our Governor, never thought those words would leave my mouth…

GeoffPolHist: ‘Anti-wokeness’ is reboot of late 19c Gilded Age Grant Sumner/Herbert Spencer style social Darwinism-gender & race replace class but shared assumption that social outcomes solely explainable by individual characteristics?

manishgvalani: “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.” —Herbert Spencer

moorbyjs: The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools (Herbert Spencer)

BankableInsight: Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world. - Herbert Spencer

MooreFay: As Herbert Spencer put it: “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”

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MooreFay: As Herbert Spencer put it: “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.” "fools" = snowflakes needing safe spaces

mrleathersuit: herbert spencer was a scary ass man

macromonetarist: "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." ~ Herbert Spencer

GmeImmortan: Via ZH: It seems now that tech start-ups like... anybody with an effective lobbyists are too big to fail even if they are too difficult to understand... As Herbert Spencer put: “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”

viamalcontenti: Looks like you will have to click on the picture to see this. This IS quite something to see, and right across the lane from Herbert Spencer. But not the coolest thing to see in this cemetery.

dimitrilascaris: The Democrats have managed yet again to bail out a big bank, and they don’t even have the decency to admit that it’s a bailout. As Herbert Spencer said, “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”

imetatronink: “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.” -- Herbert Spencer

IstitutoTarello: Seminario: The Supreme Court and the Social Statics.Herbert Spencer, Jack London e l’opinione dissenziente del giudice Holmes inLochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905)

mark_gibson9: Contempt prior to Investigation There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation. Herbert Spencer

King_Mamadelo: I think people don't fully grasp the concept of Herbert Spencer's theory of "survival of the fittest". If you make your country about corruption, the fittest in corruption thrives. If you make it about competence, the most competent people thrive. That's why in a corrupt...

AestheteFanatic: Herbert Spencer writing to Kaneko Kentaro (Meiji Statesman) in 1892 on the intermarriages of the Japanese with foreigners:

random_phil: People on here hate Herbert Spencer and I love it

bjvaghasiya: The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer

BLKTwin: The great Aim of education is not knowledge, but Action. - Herbert Spencer

BankableInsight: All socialism involves slavery. - Herbert Spencer

LouvePlaise: "As already said , morality stands towards government only in the nature of a limitation —behaves negatively with regard to it, not positively." — Herbert Spencer

LouvePlaise: "..replies to all inquiries by silently indicating the conditions of existence, constitution, and conduct, under which alone it may be ethically tolerated." — Herbert Spencer

LouvePlaise: "It is an assertion often made, as of indisputable truth, that government ought to guarantee to its subjects—security and a sense of security." — Herbert Spencer

LouvePlaise: "Coupled as are the ideas—security and a sense of security,—we must suppose that as governors are required to carry home—security—to every individual, so also may every individual claim the—sense of security— at their hands." — Herbert Spencer

nyynabbok: For ‘the great aim of education,’said Herbert Spencer, ‘is not knowledge but action.’ And this is an action book. Dale Carnegie 1936

official_dgar: ASSAM RIFLES CONDUCTS MOTIVATIONAL LECTURE Assam Rifles on 09 Mar, on the occasion of international women's day conducted a motivational-cum- interactive session to motivate students to join Indian Army at Herbert Spencer School, Northern Angami Colony, Dimapur, Nagaland.

jeffrey_wick: Herbert Charles Spencer is remembered.

EMBurlingame: "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." -Herbert Spencer

heather_sally_: ...and further, that, unless the right to ignore the State is recognized, its acts must essentially be criminal." Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, as included in The Anarchist Handbook

Cookyri7292: The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.,Herbert Spencer,Wise, Man, Past ,

spencer_chrys: Who needs Zion or Brandon Ingram when you have offensive mastermind Herbert Jones

TimeToExpand: Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. Herbert Spencer

EqualiSource: Herbert Spencer’s multi volume System of Synthetic Philosophy, argued that societies evolve like life forms, and only the strongest survive (1874-85)

CerebralWisdom: Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. - Herbert Spencer

CerebralWisdom: Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. - Herbert Spencer

bge_bot: spirit of respectable but mediocre Englishmen ‑ I name Darwin, John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer ‑is starting to gain ascendancy in the midregion of European taste.

ChopDoer: “the great aim of education is not knowledge but action” Herbert Spencer

Politica_Econom: new species. As X Club co-founder Herbert Spencer went on to elaborate the system of “social darwinism” as the logical outgrowth of Darwin’s system into human affairs, the intention behind the propagation of the Darwinian program was never “the enlightenment liberalism in battle

GKCQuote: Did Herbert Spencer ever convince you—did he ever convince anybody—did he ever for one mad moment convince himself—that it must be to the interest of the individual to feel a public spirit?

CerebralWisdom: How is it that Liberalism, getting more and more into power, has grown more and more coercive in its legislation? - Herbert Spencer

Sherkhanaaaa: Darwinian and subsequently Herbert Spencer views in evolution because it exhort Nietzsche to write "Will to power" and that's it. Otherwise, there views about evolution is naive.

NuclearHeart169: “Those who regard the recent course of legislation as disastrous, and see that its future course is likely to be still more disastrous, are being reduced to silence by the belief that it is useless to reason with people in a state of political intoxication.” Herbert Spencer,…

CerebralWisdom: The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes on him. - Herbert Spencer

0starkafterdark: More loosely speaking however, Darwinism has been adapted (heh) into "an entire range of evolutionary (and often revolutionary) philosophies" - usually categorized as Social Darwinism and summed up in that phrase "survival of the fittest", coined by Herbert Spencer

CerebralWisdom: The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes on him. - Herbert Spencer

CerebralWisdom: Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world. - Herbert Spencer

RonaldLaceyFans: Charleston is an Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It was distributed in the United States by Analysis Film Releasing Corporation, released on this date in 1977. Stars Bud Spencer and Herbert Lom (not in this scene); Ron plays Frankie.

shaneful_: reading herbert spencer’s principles of ethics and it’s legitimately so grueling

CerebralWisdom: How is it that Liberalism, getting more and more into power, has grown more and more coercive in its legislation? - Herbert Spencer

paullees496: The Complicated Legacy of Herbert Spencer, the Man Who Coined 'Survival of the Fittest'

suspendedreason: Today we learned that either nobody knows who Herbert Spencer is, or he's a blacklisted keyword on this site

suspendedreason: So apparently memetics was invented by Herbert Spencer in the 19th C, only to be rebranded by Dawkins a century later under a new name.

ecfiebs: There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination. Herbert Spencer

truthsearch1957: New Law, New Doctrine and Voir Dire of Judges in Bench Trials Interesting Read: By Neil Garfield March 3, 2023 "society exists for the benefit of its members and not they for its benefit." Herbert Spencer Spencer also fell into the trap that Karl Marx

EqualiSource: Herbert Spencer’s multi volume System of Synthetic Philosophy, argued that societies evolve like life forms, and only the strongest survive (1874-85)

27yStreetPlace: “He was so busy analyzing and describing life that he had no time to live it”. Will Durant about Herbert Spencer in The Story of Philosophy.

viet_marine: "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Attributed to Herbert Spencer

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