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Top 20 William Winwood Reade Quotes (2025 Update)

William Winwood Reade Quote: “Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.”

1. “Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.”

2. “It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “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.”

3. “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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William Winwood Reade Quote: “As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.”

4. “As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.”

5. “Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.”

6. “A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.”

7. “The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature – a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.”

8. “One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature – a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.”

9. “Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.”

11. “To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.”

12. “Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.”

13. “As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “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.”

14. “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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William Winwood Reade Quote: “It is the first and indispensable condition of human progress that a people shall be married to a single land;.”

15. “It is the first and indispensable condition of human progress that a people shall be married to a single land;.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.”

16. “Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “Then, if the Earth-wife be fruitful, she will bear them children by hundreds and by thousands; and then calamity will come and teach them by torture to invent.”

18. “Then, if the Earth-wife be fruitful, she will bear them children by hundreds and by thousands; and then calamity will come and teach them by torture to invent.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.”

19. “Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.”

20. “It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.”

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William Winwood Reade Quote: “What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?”

21. “What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?”

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