Quote by Thomas Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wi

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! – Thomas Huxley

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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. – Thomas Huxley

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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. – Thomas Huxley

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. – Helen Keller

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The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress. – Emmet F. Fields

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Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Maos China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. – Azar Nafisi

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In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners. – Jonathon Miller

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Good health and good sense are two of lifes greatest blessings. – Publilius Syrus

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I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. – Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893

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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. – J.A. McIntosh

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