To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Zadig saw how extremely dangerous it sometimes is to appear too knowing, and therefore resolved, that on the next occasion of the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at… — 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
Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“If,” said he, “thou hast any humanity, I conjure thee to pay some regard to her beauty and weakness. How canst thou… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Pangloss explained to him how everything was so constituted that it could not be better. James was not of this opinion. "It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Toleration is the prerogative of humanity; we are all full of weaknesses and mistakes; let us reciprocally forgive ourselves. It is the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — 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
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars,… — 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
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you… — 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
