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
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Trust to yourself; let our own eyes determine; Be they our tripods, oracles, and gods.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head… — 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
