Quote #39
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts!
More from Herbert Spencer
- Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.
- Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evo…
- The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
- As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions prod…
- The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
- Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
- Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
- 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 ev…