Has beens Quotes by Voltaire

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

— Voltaire

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

— Voltaire

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

— Voltaire

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

— Voltaire

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

— Voltaire

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

— Voltaire

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether…

— Voltaire

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

— Voltaire

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been…

— Voltaire

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of…

— Voltaire

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance…

— Voltaire

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,…

— Voltaire

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into…

— Voltaire

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life…

— Voltaire

Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of…

— Voltaire

I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is…

— Voltaire

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at…

— Voltaire