Nature Quotes by Voltaire

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

— Voltaire

What is not in nature can never be true.

— Voltaire

Men argue. Nature acts.

— Voltaire

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

— Voltaire

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

— Voltaire

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

— Voltaire

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

— Voltaire

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

— Voltaire

“I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.”

— Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

— Voltaire

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

— Voltaire

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated…

— Voltaire

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and…

— Voltaire

“Irregularity is inherent in our very nature; expecting people to be perfectly wise is as crazy as putting wings on dogs or…

— Voltaire

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

— Voltaire

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has…

— Voltaire

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law…

— Voltaire

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the…

— Voltaire

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you…

— Voltaire

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and…

— Voltaire

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no…

— Voltaire

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars,…

— Voltaire

“Toleration is the prerogative of humanity; we are all full of weaknesses and mistakes; let us reciprocally forgive ourselves. It is the…

— Voltaire

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there…

— Voltaire

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little…

— Voltaire

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body,…

— Voltaire

“mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither…

— Voltaire

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did…

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“Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in…

— Voltaire

“Pangloss explained to him how everything was so constituted that it could not be better. James was not of this opinion. "It…

— Voltaire

People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It…

— Voltaire

Nature has always had more force than education.

— Voltaire

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

— Voltaire

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

— Voltaire

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each…

— Voltaire

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's…

— Voltaire

“What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at…

— Voltaire

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a…

— Voltaire