Voltaire Quotes, Reason Quotes

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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Common sense is not so common.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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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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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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