“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
— Voltaire
“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“Common sense is not so common.”
“Writing is the painting of the voice.”
“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
“My life is a struggle.”
“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be well-mannered.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
“Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.”
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.”
“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.”
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
“The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.”
“Paradise is where I am.”
“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
“Prejudice is opinion without judgement.”
“Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”
“Men argue. Nature acts.”
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
“If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.”
“Let us cultivate our garden.”
“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”
“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.”
“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
“God created woman to tame man.”
“Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion.”
“One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.”
“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”
“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
“We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.”
“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
“We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.”
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
“Dare to think for yourself.”
“To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.”
“The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.”
“The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”
“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.”
“Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.”
“Life is a shipwreck but we must remember to sing in the lifeboats.”
“History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”
“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.”
“I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.”
“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc...”
“Constant happiness is the philosopher’s stone of the soul.”
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”
“History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.”
“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
“A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people’s attention.”
“Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.”
“The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.”
“History is the lie commonly agreed upon.”
“Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.”
“Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.”
“Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”
“God created sex. Priests created marriage.”
“Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.”
“The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.”
“He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.”
“Virtuous men alone possess friends.”
“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.”
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
“Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.”
“Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.”
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