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Common sense is not so common.
VoltaireVoltaire No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VoltaireVoltaire History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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.
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I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I’m competing with is me.
Wilma RudolphWilma Rudolph Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Hedy LamarrHedy Lamarr They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
D. H. LawrenceD. H. Lawrence You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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