Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““the nose has been formed to bear spectacles—thus we have spectacles.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches.… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The vision should be through our creative eyes, but along with the spectacles of reality.” — Rajasaraswathii Copy Share Image
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose… — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
