Voltaire

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Round numbers are always false.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

The public must and will be served.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.