Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity — 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
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
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent. — 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
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their… — 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
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly… — 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
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
There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. — 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
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. — 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
