More from Voltaire
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VoltaireVoltaire One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VoltaireVoltaire It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireVoltaire I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VoltaireVoltaire What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VoltaireVoltaire Our 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.
VoltaireVoltaire It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireVoltaire If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VoltaireVoltaire Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VoltaireVoltaire If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VoltaireVoltaire We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VoltaireVoltaire I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VoltaireVoltaire The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VoltaireVoltaire 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.
VoltaireVoltaire Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VoltaireVoltaire Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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