Quote #28
The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin-deep saying.
More from Herbert Spencer
- We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itse…
- Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undert…
- Evolution is definable as a change from an incoherent homogeneity to a coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and i…
- Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith t…
- Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
- Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achie…
- Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a n…
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.