When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
VoltaireA clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
VoltaireLet us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.
Voltaire