“I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ” — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh. VOLTAIRE” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. —Voltaire” — Steven D. Price Copy Share Image
“Optimism is the madness of insisting all is well when we are wretched. — Voltaire” — Eleanor Longden Copy Share Image
“If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would… — Émilie Du Châtelet Copy Share Image
“If God is always on the side of the big battalions as Voltaire says, then, let us not waste our time with… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“Voltaire responded that, on the contrary, vivisection showed that the dog has the same organes de sentiment that a human has. "Answer… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
“Voltaire was also there, fleeing a royal arrest warrant, and working as a kind of one-man eighteenth-century USO show during the siege,… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Neither Louis nor Marie Antoinette was at ease with the truly important people of their day. When Voltaire, after an exile of… — Bernardine Kielty Copy Share Image
“They could not help loving anything that made them laugh. The Lisbon earthquake was “embarrassing to the physicists and humiliating to theologians”… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“He was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I found my father asleep in his dining-room armchair, with a blanket over his legs and his favorite book open in his… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Voltaire exclaims: ‘Oh metaphysics! We have come precisely as far as in the time of the early Druids.’c But what other science… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Finally—this is what is most terrible of all—the concept of the good man signifies that one sides with all that is weak,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“When the evening began, Fouquet was at the top of the world. By the time it had ended, he was at the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“They were usually willing to deploy any tool—intellectual or otherwise—to suppress slave resistance and ensure returns on their investments. VOLTAIRE,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.” — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
