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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Herbert Spencer
Hero, Political, Atheism
Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.461

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Herbert Spencer
Men, Atheism, Equal
Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.522, VM eBooks

Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.

Herbert Spencer
People, Ignorant, Atheism

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer
Health, Exercise, Atheism
1861 Education, ch.4.

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

Herbert Spencer
Men, Soul, Atheism
Herbert Spencer (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

Herbert Spencer
Ideas, Atheism, Spirit

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
Play, Atheism, Guidance
Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.518

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

Herbert Spencer
Emotional, Intellectual, Atheism
Herbert Spencer (1904). “An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer”

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Herbert Spencer
Ideas, Atheism, Matter
Herbert Spencer (2016). “First Principles: Great Philosopher”, p.304, 北戴河出版

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