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Ideas Quotes by Voltaire
- Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
- What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of…
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct…
- We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of…
- Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our…
- Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
- Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
- Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile genius, full of…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong