Voltaire Quotes About Philosophy
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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.
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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
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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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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
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History should be written as philosophy.
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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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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.
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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?
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