Dare to think for yourself.
VOLTAIREUncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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