Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between… — 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
