Voltaire Quotes, Reality Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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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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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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