Herbert Spencer Quotes

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

Herbert Spencer

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• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Fierce
  • Guidance
  • Bravery

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Service
  • Mankind
  • Serve

• I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.

  

  Yves Montand
  • Man
  • Married
  • Affair

• To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • May
  • Humans
  • Littles

• The Liberal party has been in power throughout this entire scandalous affair. And Mr. Martin, to my knowledge, has been a very senior Liberal.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Party

• The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Purpose
  • Unique
  • Humans

• Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Struggle

• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Humans

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • God
  • True
  • Interest

• Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • God
  • Men
  • Nature

• Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • War
  • Future
  • Humans

• I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Looks
  • Humans
  • Mirror

• Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • High
  • Life is

• Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Body

• How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • God
  • Trouble
  • Guidance

• The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Death
  • Dance
  • Animal

• I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.

  

  Martin Delany
  • Men
  • Live
  • Black

• Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

  

  William James
  • Humans
  • Term
  • Invention

• Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Progress
  • Humans
  • Commentators

• The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Hide
  • Delightful

• Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Humans
  • Mankind
  • Atheism