Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.” – C.S. Lewis

“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”

“Think! You can think any Think that you wish!”

“99 Percent of failures come from people who make excuses.”

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

“Enjoy yourself — it’s later than you think.”

We hope you’ve enjoyed this large collection of Voltaire quotes! It’s amazing how his thoughts and ideas have remained fresh and relevant from the French Enlightenment to today.

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

“The best brains of a nation may be found at the last benches of the classroom.”

“Thinking is the capital, an enterprise is a way, and hard work is the solution.”

"I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body."

“This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.” 

"Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think."