Philosophy Quote by Voltaire — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

“on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.”

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”

“L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être.”

“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.”

“One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.”

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

“This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.”

“Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,”