Hypatia > Quotes

“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. 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. 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.”
― Hypathia of Alexandria

“To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
― Hypatia

“All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.”
― Hypatia of Alexandria

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

“Life is growth, and the more we travel, the more truth we can understand. Understanding the things that surround us is the best preparation to understand the things that lie beyond.”
― Hypatia

“He who influences the thinking of his time, influences all the moments that follow him. Leave your opinion for eternity.”
― Hypatia

“İnanmadan önce sorgula ve bildiklerinin arkasında dur...”
― Hypatia

“Bazen en büyük hatalar, kusursuz olduğunu sandığımız işlerden kaynaklanır.”
― Hypatia

“Durmadan hareket halinde olan bir gezegende zihnen ve bedenen durmanın yakışacağı en son canlıdır insan.”
― Hypatia