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
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a… — 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
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. — 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
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself. — 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
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
Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors.… — 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
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
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. — 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
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share
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
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share
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
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share
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
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life — Voltaire Copy Share
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. — Voltaire Copy Share
