Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VOLTAIREOur wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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