Voltaire

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The eye is easily frightened.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

A great man is always willing to be little.

I was the same old me. Just like the Moon yesterday. But because of all the other factors that came to play, the darkness, the brightness, the blood red color. They all were a reflection, a projection due to the perfect set of circumstances. The Moon was still the Moon. But it was still labeled the Super Blue Blood Moon, Just so we can have some understanding, but, again I’ll state, the Moon was still just the Moon, just like I was still just me. Whatever you project on me, and I reflect back, doesn’t then make me become a new person, it’s just a reflection of your projection. I am still just me.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

No one ever became great by imitation.