It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREEvery man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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If 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.
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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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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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Dare to think for yourself.
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