Hypatia
Hypatia
Hypatia /ˌhaɪˈpeɪʃə, -ʃi.ə/ hy-PAY-shə, -shee-ə, often called Hypatia of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher in Egypt, then a part of the Byzantine Empire. She was the head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, where she taught philosophy and astronomy...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
teaching influence eternity
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
superstitions truth-is terrible
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,
life truth lying
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.
children pain believe
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.
women self religion
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
punishment mind use
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.
fighting men views
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.
wisdom philosophy science
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.