Voltaire Quotes About Doubt
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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most
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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?
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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.
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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.
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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.
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