Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineauwas a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 June 1802
christian wise giving-up
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of two thousand years ago.
education men views
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
organization latter mischief
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
way essentials opinion
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
traveler seeing spectacles
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
thinking people modesty
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.
teacher teaching responsibility
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
thinking speaks-out atheism
My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.
truth diffusion suppression
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
marriage men glances
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
atheism superstitions next
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.
hopeful genius characteristics
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
anxiety feelings degrees
We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.
future thinking preparation
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.