All William Winwood Reade Quotes
- Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. Back Upon
- And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from… Airless
- A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics.… Beautiful
- If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible… Arisen
- The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic… All
- Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. All
- Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. Angel
- What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? Abuse
- A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile. Century
- There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to… Ancestry
- We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of… Act
- Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. Artistic
- The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. All