Hypatia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
-- Hypatia

#Wisdom #Philosophy #Science
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
-- Hypatia

#Fighting #Men #Views
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
-- Hypatia

#Pain #Children #Believe
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
-- Hypatia

#Self #Religion #Finals
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
-- Hypatia

#Life #Truth #Lying
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
-- Hypatia

#Teaching #Influence #Eternity
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.
-- Hypatia

#Life Is
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.
-- Hypatia

#Punishment #Mind #Use
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,
-- Hypatia

#Superstitions #Truth Is #Terrible

O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul
When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

Hypatia famous quotes

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