Herbert Spencer Life Quotations

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.