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#1

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
― Voltaire

tags: god, voltaire

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#2

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

3174 likes

#3

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

2776 likes

#4

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

tags: inspirational

3875 likes

#5

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

tags: freedom-of-thought

1139 likes

#6

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
― Voltaire

tags: books, reading

1055 likes

#7

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
― Voltaire

1141 likes

#8

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

972 likes

#9

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

787 likes

#10

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths

848 likes

#11

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
― Voltaire

510 likes

#12

“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
― Voltaire

tags: self-delusion

492 likes

#13

“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
― Voltaire

381 likes

#14

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
― Voltaire

tags: health-care, medicine

410 likes

#15

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
― Voltaire

338 likes

#16

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

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#17

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
― Buckminster R. Fuller

337 likes

#18

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but
when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is
wrong.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

tags: art

233 likes

#19

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

348 likes

#20

“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,
it's a different kind of life.”
― Buckminster Fuller

161 likes

#21

“I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

192 likes

#22

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

tags: learn, learning, teach, teaching, think, thinking, tool, training

204 likes

#23

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

41 likes

#24

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

tags: inspirational, integrity, success, successful, successful-living

38 likes

#25

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning

3726 likes

#26

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

3546 likes

#27

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
― Margaret Mead

121 likes

#28

“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
― Margaret Mead

86 likes

#29

“My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.”
― Margaret Mead

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