Voltaire

François-Marie d’Arouet (1694–1778), better known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer and public activist who played a singular role in defining the eighteenth-century movement called the Enlightenment. At the center of his work was a new conception of philosophy and the philosopher that in several crucial respects influenced the modern concept of each. Yet in other ways Voltaire was not a philosopher at all in the modern sense of the term.

He wrote as many plays, stories, and poems as patently philosophical tracts, and he in fact directed many of his critical writings against the philosophical pretensions of recognized philosophers such as Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes.

Great Thoughts of Voltaire

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too."

"In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense."

"Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money."

"It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."

"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification. knowing without thinking without thinking , merging finititude in infinity."