#voltaire

digit@iviv.hu

The only barrier to truth,

is the belief you already have it

-- Voltaire

#nonbelief #voltaire

#goodquote #goodquotes #quote

also "the only barrier to truth is the presumption you already have it" -- Chuck Missler

and "a prominent barrier to truth seems the certainty to already have it" -- Digit

#belief #presumption #certainty #truth #epistemology #humility #curiosity #wisdom #introspection #awareness #acceptance #agnotology #ignorance #arrogance #consider #philosophy

ps "all i know is i know nothing, and sometimes i forget even that much." -- Digit paraphrasing Socrates plus extra humility whimsy.

yew@diasp.eu

“I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it”.

-Voltaire

#Voltaire #freedom #quote

zeugma@diaspora.psyco.fr

Voltaire | Writer, Wit, #Philosopher and Rebel

"After a couple more run-ins with the authorities Voltaire went to live in England for three years. But the French Government continued to pursue their troublesome citizen, censoring or suppressing much of his work and ordering some of his books to be burned. In 1734 Voltaire made a decisive break from France by moving to Switzerland where he was to spend much of his later life.

"He was able to afford such extravagance and live comfortably thanks to the French lottery. Voltaire had teamed with mathematician Charles Marie de La Condamine and other gamblers to exploit a loophole in the way the lottery was run so that their syndicate repeatedly won huge prizes and they all became very rich."

https://www.onthisday.com/articles/voltaire-writer-wit-philosopher-and-rebel

#art #bookburning #book-burning #censorship #england #exile #exploits #france #freedom #history #loophole #lottery #mathematics #painting #philosophy #politics #RaySetterfield #rebel #religion #setterfield #switzerland #voltaire #wit #writer

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com

Rose/Icke VI ~ The Vindication

https://freedomplatform.tv/rose-icke-6-the-vindication

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."- #Plato
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than what most people think." - #Aristotle.
"The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom." - #Voltaire
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - #MarkTwain

#rose-icke #brianrose #davidicke #thevindication #londonreal #freedomplatform #fear #biology #money #control #awakening #freedomofspeech #freespeech #truth #quotes

digit@joindiaspora.com