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
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness — 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
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and… — 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
