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"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
— Voltaire

tags: argument, belief, monster, opinion, philosophy
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"“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”"
— Voltaire

21 people liked it

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

72 people liked it

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: intellectualism
66 people liked it

"A witty saying proves nothing. "
— Voltaire

55 people liked it

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
— Voltaire

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"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers"
— Voltaire

115 people liked it

"If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities."
— Voltaire

65 people liked it

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
— Voltaire

tags: double, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, standards, war
127 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,890 people liked it

"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
— Voltaire

76 people liked it

"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."
— Voltaire

tags: books, reading
64 people liked it

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
— Voltaire

269 people liked it

"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
— Voltaire

tags: god, religion
93 people liked it

" It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
— Voltaire

62 people liked it

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
— Voltaire

58 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
868 people liked it

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
— Karl Marx

tags: communism
23 people liked it

"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness."
— Karl Marx

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"Religion is the Opiate of the Masses."
— Karl Marx (Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right)

tags: philosophical
25 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,687 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,416 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,285 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
3,206 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,993 people liked it

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Richard Dawkins

tags: atheism, philosophy
423 people liked it

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
— Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)

tags: philosophy, politics
458 people liked it

"A cult is a religion with no political power."
— Tom Wolfe

tags: atheism, philosophy
66 people liked it

"The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

12 people liked it

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life
206 people liked it

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: history
49 people liked it

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth
562 people liked it

"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell

tags: history
142 people liked it

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
— George Orwell

tags: generations, intelligence, wisdom
83 people liked it

"I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

14 people liked it

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
— Mary Shelley

tags: inspirational
14 people liked it

"...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding."
— Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

8 people liked it

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"
— Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

11 people liked it

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: buddism, kindness, religion
194 people liked it

"World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: peace
46 people liked it

"This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: kindness, religion
25 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,639 people liked it

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life
831 people liked it

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: loss
689 people liked it

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: reality
598 people liked it

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: identity, originality
456 people liked it

"The things you own end up owning you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

272 people liked it

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: family, god, parents
259 people liked it

"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: identity
206 people liked it

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: life
273 people liked it

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