Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
VOLTAIREThe discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
More Voltaire Quotes
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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