James > James's Quotes

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
― Voltaire

“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.”
― Voltaire

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
― Voltaire

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
― Voltaire

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
― Voltaire

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
― Voltaire

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
― Voltaire

“Love truth, but pardon error.”
― Voltaire

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
― Voltaire

“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
― Voltaire

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
― Voltaire

“Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”
― Voltaire

“Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.”
― Voltaire

“The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person. ”
― Voltaire

“Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
― Albert Einstein