Moses Harvey quotes

“Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.”
-- Moses Harvey

Source : Moses Harvey (1886). “Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress”

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“We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.”
-- Moses Harvey

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“In solitude all great things are born.”
-- Moses Harvey

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“Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.”
-- Moses Harvey

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“The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.”
-- Moses Harvey

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“The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.”
-- Moses Harvey

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“Life is the offspring of death.”
-- Moses Harvey

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“Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.”
-- Moses Harvey

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“Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.”
-- Moses Harvey

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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”

“I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.”

“Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.”

“An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.”

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”

“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”

“I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.”

“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”

“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”