Voltaire Quotes

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I know that I don’t know.

The reason the public loves me is that they understand everything that I do. The reason they love you is that they understand nothing of what you do.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.