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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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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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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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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