1、Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
2、Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
3、假如上帝并不存在,那就必须把祂造出来。
原文:S'il n'existait pas Dieum ,il faudrait l'inventer. ----《致一本关于三个老师误人子弟的书的作者》
5、美德与过恶,道德上的善与恶,都是对社会有利或有害的行为;在任何地点,在任何时代,为公益作出最大牺牲的人,都是人们称为最道德的人。
6、“诗人、历史学家、哲学家,他拓展了人类精神,并且使之懂得它应当是自由的。”
9、There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
11、什么是宽容?宽容是人性的附属物。我们满是弱点和错误,让我们为我们的愚蠢互相原谅吧。 ----《自由主义的两张面孔》
14、外表的美只能取悦于人的眼睛,而内在的美却能感染人的灵魂
16、Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
17、This is the best of all possible shit.这是所有粑粑里最好的了。
21、一切享有各种天然能力人,显然都是平等的,当他们发挥各种动物机能的时候,以及用他们的理智的时候,他们是平等的。
22、You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
23、世界上本来就没有神,但可别告诉我的仆人,免得他半夜偷偷把我宰了。
25、Voltaire
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers
26、Each player must accept the cards life deals him.
But once they are in hand, he alone must decide
how to play the cards in order to win the game.