
“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”
Source: The Tale of the Body Thief
La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les éteint.
Dictionnaire philosophique http://www17.us.archive.org/stream/dictionnairephil08volt/dictionnairephil08volt_djvu.txt (1822), "Superstition"
Citas
La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les éteint.
“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”
Source: The Tale of the Body Thief
Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”
#32
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Letter to her sister Elle (1923); later published in Letters from Africa: 1914-1931 (1981) edited by Frans Lasson, translated by Anne Born.