Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
VOLTAIRELiberty of thought is the life of the soul.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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