Liberty/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words liberty and/or philosophy:

    Science ... has won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom to use nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    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)