Ancestry Quote by William Winwood Reade Download Open image “Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.” — William Winwood Reade ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestry Angel Apes Believe Men
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings,… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent,… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
