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