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Human Quotes by Voltaire
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
- The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that…
- The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
- Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
- So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of…
- One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is…
- It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
- But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which…
- Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they…
- The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors
- I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
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- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
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