Voltaire Quotes And Sayings

The Truths Of Religion Are Never So Well Understood As By Those Who Have Lost The Power Of Reason.

What Most Persons Consider As Virtue, After The Age Of 40 Is Simply A Loss Of Energy.

Superstition Is To Religion What Astrology Is To Astronomy The Mad Daughter Of A Wise Mother. These Daughters Have Too Long Dominated The Earth.

It Is Lamentable, That To Be A Good Patriot One Must Become The Enemy Of The Rest Of Mankind.

Chance Is A Word Void Of Sense; Nothing Can Exist Without A Cause.

Judge A Man By His Questions Rather Than His Answers.

To Believe In God Is Impossible Not To Believe In Him Is Absurd.

Meditation Is The Dissolution Of Thoughts In Eternal Awareness Or Pure Consciousness Without Objectification, Knowing Without Thinking, Merging Finitude In Infinity.

The Public Is A Ferocious Beast; One Must Either Chain It Or Flee From It.

It Is Better To Risk Saving A Guilty Man Than To Condemn An Innocent One.

I Have Never Made But One Prayer To God, A Very Short One: 'O Lord Make My Enemies Ridiculous.' And God Granted It.

In General, The Art Of Government Consists Of Taking As Much Money As Possible From One Class Of Citizens To Give To Another.

It Is Not Enough To Conquer; One Must Learn To Seduce.

To Succeed In The World It Is Not Enough To Be Stupid, You Must Also Be Well-mannered.

The Instruction We Find In Books Is Like Fire. We Fetch It From Our Neighbours, Kindle It At Home, Communicate It To Others, And It Becomes The Property Of All.

The Safest Course Is To Do Nothing Against One's Conscience. With This Secret, We Can Enjoy Life And Have No Fear From Death.

It Is Difficult To Free Fools From The Chains They Revere.

We Are All Full Of Weakness And Errors; Let Us Mutually Pardon Each Other Our Follies - It Is The First Law Of Nature.

We Cannot Always Oblige; But We Can Always Speak Obligingly.

He Must Be Very Ignorant For He Answers Every Question He Is Asked.

Friendship Is The Marriage Of The Soul, And This Marriage Is Liable To Divorce.

Nature Has Always Had More Force Than Education.

The Opportunity For Doing Mischief Is Found A Hundred Times A Day, And Of Doing Good Once In A Year.

The Mouth Obeys Poorly When The Heart Murmurs.

The Progress Of Rivers To The Ocean Is Not So Rapid As That Of Man To Error.

This Self-love Is The Instrument Of Our Preservation; It Resembles The Provision For The Perpetuity Of Mankind: It Is Necessary, It Is Dear To Us, It Gives Us Pleasure, And We Must Conceal It.

Very Learned Women Are To Be Found, In The Same Manner As Female Warriors; But They Are Seldom Or Ever Inventors.

We Must Distinguish Between Speaking To Deceive And Being Silent To Be Reserved.

What Is Tolerance? It Is The Consequence Of Humanity. We Are All Formed Of Frailty And Error; Let Us Pardon Reciprocally Each Other's Folly - That Is The First Law Of Nature.

Men Use Thought Only As Authority For Their Injustice, And Employ Speech Only To Conceal Their Thoughts.

Ice-cream Is Exquisite - What A Pity It Isn't Illegal.

To The Wicked, Everything Serves As Pretext.

We Never Live; We Are Always In The Expectation Of Living.

To The Living We Owe Respect, But To The Dead We Owe Only The Truth.

The Husband Who Decides To Surprise His Wife Is Often Very Much Surprised Himself.

In The Case Of News, We Should Always Wait For The Sacrament Of Confirmation.

Optimism Is The Madness Of Insisting That All Is Well When We Are Miserable.

Prejudices Are What Fools Use For Reason.

It Is Not Known Precisely Where Angels Dwell Whether In The Air, The Void, Or The Planets. It Has Not Been God's Pleasure That We Should Be Informed Of Their Abode.

God Is Not On The Side Of The Big Battalions, But On The Side Of Those Who Shoot Best.

I Die Adoring God, Loving My Friends, Not Hating My Enemies, And Detesting Superstition.

We Are Rarely Proud When We Are Alone.

When Men Do Not Have Healthy Notions Of The Divinity, False Ideas Supplant Them, Just As In Bad Times One Uses Counterfeit Money When There Is No Good Money.

Love Is A Canvas Furnished By Nature And Embroidered By Imagination.

It Is One Of The Superstitions Of The Human Mind To Have Imagined That Virginity Could Be A Virtue.

Let Us Read And Let Us Dance - Two Amusements That Will Never Do Any Harm To The World.

The World Embarrasses Me, And I Cannot Dream That This Watch Exists And Has No Watchmaker.

He Who Is Not Just Is Severe, He Who Is Not Wise Is Sad.

The Little May Contrast With The Great, In Painting, But Cannot Be Said To Be Contrary To It. Oppositions Of Colors Contrast; But There Are Also Colors Contrary To Each Other, That Is, Which Produce An Ill Effect Because They Shock The Eye When Brought Very Near It.

The First Step, My Son, Which One Makes In The World, Is The One On Which Depends The Rest Of Our Days.