Love truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIREIf 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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