Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
More Voltaire Quotes
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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