God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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