Nature has always had more force than education.... -Voltaire

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Voltaire Quotes to Explore

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too....
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers....
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind....
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise....
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad....
To hold a pen is to be at war....
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets....
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die....
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts....
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him....

Nature Quotes to Explore

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....