Hypatia

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

All religions are founded on fear and are an attempt to dispel the unknown.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only with great difficulty can they be afterward set aside. The mind that has for years been believing in fables and miracles is not a logical mind. It is not a mind prepared for the world. It is not a mind prepared to understand the world.

Men are not to be taught to think, but to believe.

To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.

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.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

The greatest evil is not to act, but to be acted upon.

She was a woman who, for her knowledge of philosophy and mathematics, was held in such esteem that she was deemed worthy to succeed her father Theon in the headship of the Platonic school.

She made such progress in literature and science, as to surpass all the philosophers of her own time.

She was a virgin, and she preserved her virginity to the end of her life.

She was a woman of such eloquence and modesty, that she received all who desired to consult her, and explained to them the principles of philosophy.

She was so learned in mathematics and astronomy that she was able to invent an astrolabe and a hydroscope.

You have taught me to look at the heavens, and to understand the harmony of the spheres.

I have seen the light of truth in your teachings.

You are my revered teacher, my guide, my mother, my sister, my everything.

The mind that has for years been believing in fables and miracles is not a logical mind.

It is not a mind prepared for the world. It is not a mind prepared to understand the world.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.

All religions are founded on fables and on a belief in things that are incredible.