“The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must -… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am ignorant of everything;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I am ignorant of how I was formed and how I was born. Through a quarter of my lifetime I was absolutely… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. — 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
