Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VOLTAIREMadness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Common sense is not so common.
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