"Opinion is called the queen of the..." - Quote by Voltaire

“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.”

“I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.”

“Anything too stupid to be said is sung.”

“I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.”

“In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.”

“What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.”

“If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.”

“[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.”

“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”