William Winwood Reade Quotes
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“It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.”
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— William Winwood Reade
— William Winwood Reade
“Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.”
— William Winwood Reade
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.
— William Winwood Reade
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
— William Winwood Reade
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.
— William Winwood Reade
— William Winwood Reade
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.
— William Winwood Reade
— William Winwood Reade
— William Winwood Reade
— William Winwood Reade
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.
— William Winwood Reade
— William Winwood Reade
— William Winwood Reade
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
— William Winwood Reade
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
— William Winwood Reade
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 quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
— William Winwood Reade
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