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Voltaire quotes about feeling

French Writer November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778

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I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and... Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work...."
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. Voltaire
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all? Voltaire
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 anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. Voltaire
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 character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Voltaire

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