Voltaire Thinking Quotations

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Dare to think for yourself.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

We only half live when we only half think.

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.