Leeroy Ting

“Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.”

Everyone agreed with me, and yet I found no one who wanted to accept the bargain of becoming ignorant in order to become content. From this I concluded that though we greatly value happiness, we place even greater value on reason.

But yet, upon reflection, it seems that to prefer reason to happiness is to be quite insane.”
― Voltaire

“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.”
― Voltaire

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
― Voltaire

“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.”
― voltaire, Candide