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Philosophy Quotes
180 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
Voltaire · Zadig, 1747
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
Voltaire
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
Voltaire
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Voltaire
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire · Questions sur les miracles, 1765
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
Voltaire · The Age of Louis XIV, 1752
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
Voltaire · Letter to Frederick the Great, 1767
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
Voltaire
“We must cultivate our garden.”
Voltaire · Candide, 1759
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.”
Leo Tolstoy
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
Leo Tolstoy · The First Step, 1892
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy · A Confession, 1882
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy · A Calendar of Wisdom, 1908
“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace, 1869
