Genius/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words genius and/or philosophy:

    Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but he could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les éteint. Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)