Quotes · Skopia

18 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Centre-Val de Loire✕clear

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

1943

★ 1.9

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.

1896

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

Principles of Philosophy · 1644

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 2.1

Novel · Satire

Appetite comes with eating.

Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel · 1534

★ 2.2

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

1976

★ 3.5

We cannot tear out a single page of life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Mauprut · 1837

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.

Meditations on First Philosophy · 1641

★ 3.7

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

1862

★ 3.7

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

1869

★ 4.5

Novel · Satirical fiction · Satire

To laugh is proper to man.

Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel · 1534

★ 4.7

Philosophical literature

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 5.4

Novel · Satirical fiction · Satire

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel · 1564

★ 5.5

No human creature can give orders to love.

Jacques · 1834

★ 6.2

Philosophical literature

I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

Meditations on First Philosophy · 1641

★ 6.3

Philosophical literature

I think, therefore I am.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 9.1