God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted… — 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
