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W. Winwood Reade Quotes
«The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.»
Author: W. Winwood Reade
«A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.»
Author: W. Winwood Reade
«If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.»
Author: W. 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.»
Author: W. Winwood Reade
«There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.»
Author: W. Winwood Reade
«Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.»
Author: W. Winwood Reade