Quotes by William Winwood Reade

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• 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.

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• Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  ― William Winwood Reade
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• 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.

  ― William Winwood Reade
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• The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

  ― William Winwood Reade
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• 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.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• imitativeness
• propensities
• philosophic
• aspirations
• explanation
• expansion

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