Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — 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
Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think! — 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
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but… — 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
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance… — 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
