Inspirational Sayings

We must reform our antiquated customs and adopt the strengths of foreign nations.

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those that were of no use.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The greater part of mankind are more governed by interest than by reason.

Scepticism is the freedom which thought achieves in itself.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

The world would be much more happy if men were to govern their passions by reason, than if they were to leave them unbridled.

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

No man should think of going forward in the expedition, who could not do so with his whole heart, or who had the least misgiving as to its success.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Man is a useless passion.

The most marvelous thing about writing is that it allows you to be alone with your thoughts, without being lonely.

Is it not possible for the judge to be wrong?

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.