God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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About Voltaire

Portrait of Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, US also ; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and...

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When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Regimen is superior to medicine.

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.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

—William James

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

—Richard Feynman

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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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