ideas Quotes

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.