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! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by… — 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
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is. — 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
