When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VOLTAIRELiberty of thought is the life of the soul.
More Voltaire Quotes
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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