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Hypatia

Greek Philosopher

Born: 350

Died: 415

After Better Fight Truth Truth Is Will

Related authors: Aristotle Diogenes Epictetus Epicurus Heraclitus Plato Plutarch Socrates

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 Best Travel Lie Understanding Preparation Our Further Those Comprehend More Beyond Understand Door Things

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

Great Mind Miracles Pain Relieved Fables Only Poetic Superstitions Through He Myths Perhaps Most Terrible Terrible Thing Accepts Years Tragedy Truths Child Taught After Fantasies Them Should Teach Believes Thing

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

Better Think Wrongly Than Your Even Reserve Right

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

Final Must Religions Never Accepted Dogmatic Formal Persons

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

Truth You Fight Truth Is Will Men Living Changeable More Fact Superstition Point Point Of View Since Intangible Quickly Get Quite Often In Fact Refute Cannot View

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