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Danh ngôn của Herbert Spencer (Sứ mệnh: 3)

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Government is essentially immoral.
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.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Science is organized knowledge.
All socialism involves slavery.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.