“All formal religions are delusive and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.”
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he or she be in after years relieved of them. The reason for this is that a superstition is so intangible a thing that you cannot get at it to refute it.”— Hypatia (c.400)
A depiction of Hyptia being stoned and dragged through the streets to her death (reaction end). |
“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 (c.400)
“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”— Hypatia (c.400)