It is difficult to free fools from the chains of revere.
- Topic: Awareness
- Location: Face Rock, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Voltaire
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Appearance rules the world.
A problem well-put is half-solved.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
