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#1

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

tags: inspirational

#2

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy

1085 likes

#3

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

tags: freedom-of-thought

1157 likes

#4

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
― Voltaire

1306 likes

#5

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
― Voltaire

tags: guilt

1312 likes

#6

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

tags: apothegm, common-sense

1867 likes

#7

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

4651 likes

#8

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
― Voltaire

tags: doubt

845 likes

#9

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
― Voltaire

tags: god, religion

823 likes

#10

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict

789 likes

#11

“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
― Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas

tags: freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, thinking, tolerance, voltaire

729 likes

#12

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
― Voltaire

tags: appreciation, gratitude

653 likes

#13

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophical

472 likes

#14

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
― Voltaire

tags: money

447 likes

#15

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational, misattributed-to-jim-collins, work-ethic

392 likes

#16

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
― Tacitus

tags: anarchism, authority, paranoia

266 likes

#17

“I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: isolation, loneliness

236 likes

#18

“What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.”
― Franz Kafka, Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka

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