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

tags: apothegm, common-sense

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“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

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#3

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

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

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#4

“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

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#5

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

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#6

“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

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#7

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

tags: philosophical

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#8

“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

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#9

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

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#10

“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

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#11

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

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

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#12

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers

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#13

“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
― Voltaire

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#14

“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”
― Voltaire

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#15

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
― Voltaire

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#16

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
― Voltaire

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#17

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

tags: appreciation, gratitude

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#18

“Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
― Voltaire

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#19

“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

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#20

“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophy

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#21

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophy-of-life

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#22

“This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
― Voltaire

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#23

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
― Voltaire

tags: ignorance, knowledge, virginity, virtue

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#24

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.”
― Voltaire

tags: success

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#25

“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: existence, humor, invention, inventions, no-remorse, problem, voltaire

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#26

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
― Voltaire

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#27

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
― Voltaire

tags: gospel-truth

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#28

“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
― Voltaire

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#29

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
― Voltaire

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#30

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
― Voltaire

tags: life

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