Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists:… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
