Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Quote by Herbert Spencer
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Herbert Spencer Quotes
- The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
- Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
- Science is organized knowledge.
- Science is organized knowledge.
- 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 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.
- In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
- When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
- Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
- What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
- I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
- Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
- I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
- Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
- I've always been a bit of a car freak.
- Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.