--- title: "3 Astrology Quotes By Voltaire" description: "3 Astrology quotes by Voltaire. Plus more from Voltaire and more Astrology sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c0/voltaire-173_ancient-india_i-am-convinced-that-everything-has-come_323359.png" --- > [I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-am-convinced-that-everything-has-come-down-to-us-from-the-banks-of/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c0/voltaire-173_ancient-india_i-am-convinced-that-everything-has-come_323359.png) > [Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/superstition-is-to-religion-what-astrology-is-to-astronomy-the-mad/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f29/voltaire-173_astrology_superstition-is-to-religion-what-astrolo_2620528.png) > [Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/superstition-is-to-religion-what-astrology-is-to-astronomy-the-mad-2/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/voltaire-173_astrology_superstition-is-to-religion-what-astrolo_3121998.png) ## Other authors on Astrology - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carl-jung-20958.jpg) Carl Jung 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/carl-jung/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/swami-vivekananda/) - [Rosemary Breen 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/rosemary-breen/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/richard-dawkins/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eleanor-catton-32232.jpg) Eleanor Catton 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/eleanor-catton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-johannes-kepler-50803.jpg) Johannes Kepler 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/johannes-kepler/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/william-shakespeare/) - [Susan Mako 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/susan-mako/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-aeres-9671.jpg) Luna 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/luna/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carl-sagan-20994.jpg) Carl Sagan 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/carl-sagan/) ## More by Voltaire > [In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/in-every-province-the-chief-occupations-in-order-of-importance-are/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/fanaticism-to-which-men-are-so-much-inclined-has-always-served-not/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [History is the study of the world's crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/history-is-the-study-of-the-world-s-crime/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/we-re-neither-pure-nor-wise-nor-good-we-do-the-best-we-know/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-with-books-as-with-men-a-very-small-number-play-a-great-part/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/meslier-was-the-most-singular-phenomenon-ever-seen-among-all-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/every-sensible-man-every-honorable-man-must-hold-the-christian-sect/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/being-unable-to-make-people-more-reasonable-i-preferred-to-be-happy/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/when-his-highness-sends-a-ship-to-egypt-does-he-trouble-his-head/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/madness-is-to-think-of-too-many-things-in-succession-too-fast-or-of/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/god-gave-us-the-gift-of-life-it-is-up-to-us-to-give-ourselves-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-not-inequality-which-is-the-real-misfortune-it-is-dependence/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/providence-has-given-us-hope-and-sleep-as-a-compensation-for-the-many/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-use-thought-only-to-justify-their-wrong-doings-and-employ-speech/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/work-spares-us-from-three-evils-boredom-vice-and-need/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astrology/voltaire/#itemlist", "name": "3 Astrology Quotes By Voltaire", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Voltaire" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-am-convinced-that-everything-has-come-down-to-us-from-the-banks-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c0/voltaire-173_ancient-india_i-am-convinced-that-everything-has-come_323359.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c0/voltaire-173_ancient-india_i-am-convinced-that-everything-has-come_323359.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c0/voltaire-173_ancient-india_i-am-convinced-that-everything-has-come_323359.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology…” — Voltaire", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Voltaire" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/superstition-is-to-religion-what-astrology-is-to-astronomy-the-mad/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f29/voltaire-173_astrology_superstition-is-to-religion-what-astrolo_2620528.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f29/voltaire-173_astrology_superstition-is-to-religion-what-astrolo_2620528.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f29/voltaire-173_astrology_superstition-is-to-religion-what-astrolo_2620528.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother” — Voltaire", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. 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