Howard Williams Quotes

“Blind hero-worship and idolatry of genius or intellect – even of intellect directed to high moral aims – forms no part of the Humanitarian creed;”

“Plato, it has been already observed, deserves his high place among the immortals, not so much on account of any special originality, or on account of any direct or substantial results from his speculative and transcendental philosophy, as on account of its general tendency to subordinate the lower to the higher nature – to refine, and, so to speak, spiritualize human thought.”

“The obligation to abstain from the flesh of animals, it is to be admitted, seems to have been founded, primarily, rather upon spiritual than upon strictly humanitarian reasons.”