Disillusionment Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disillusionment Harsh World
You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are — Margaret Landon Copy Share Image
You always see the world, the way you are, not the way world is. — Swami Nithyananda Copy Share Image
“I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.” — Lacie Baskerville Pandora Hearts 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
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford Don't play this game with me, Predatory whelk of tide pools, Taint me as Rigoletto to a bawd,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A Pitiful person who is afraid of taking risks, will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps he won't suffer the way people do when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had to give… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there... — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I realized I… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
