William Rathbone Greg quotes

“Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED”
-- William Rathbone Greg

#Time Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Half Quotes

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”
-- William Rathbone Greg

Source : William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

#Daughter Quotes #Son Quotes #Men Quotes

“All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.”
-- William Rathbone Greg

Source : William Rathbone Greg (1874). “The Creed of Christendom: Its Foundations Contrasted with Its Superstructure”, p.121

#Reality Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Facts Quotes

“The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.”

“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”

“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.”

“There is no doubt that the Americans losses are very heavy because they are deployed across a wide area and among the people and because it is easy to procure weapons. All of which makes them easy and mouth watering targets for the believers.”

“The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it”

“There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.”

“A well begun is half ended.”

“Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

“My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.”