“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200. — Paul Popenoe Copy Share Image
“Voltaire, rightly commented that it was ‘neither Holy, nor Roman nor an Empire’.” — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
“God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh – Voltaire (1694-1778)” — Craig A. James Copy Share Image
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer. ” — Jessica Powell Copy Share Image
“Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist." (Voltaire)” — Elizabeth Kales Copy Share Image
“One day everything will be well, that is our hope,’ said Voltaire; ‘today everything is fine, that is our illusion.” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Fresh-bearded young men with beautiful skin and long guns on Boulevard Voltaire gazing into the beautiful, disbelieving eyes of their own generation.… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc... It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use.… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage.… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“Voltaire was soon turned, with Catherine’s encouragement, into a patron saint for the secular Russian aristocracy. Voltairianism, vaguely signifying rationalism, scepticism and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The closest that either Voltaire or the other historical geniuses of the age -- Hume and Gibbon -- came to understanding unreason's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“In this short philosophical novel he completely undermined the kind of optimism about humanity and the universe that Pope and Leibniz had… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
“Shocked? I consider Bob one of the constellations of our time — of our country — America — a bright, magnificent constellation.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up. Somebody said that, but I can’t remember who.” “Voltaire,” the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none… — Charles Spalding Thomas Copy Share Image
“If I were to announce that I had suddenly converted to Catholicism, I know that Larry Taunton and Douglas Wilson would feel… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I’m with him on that.” — Holly Chamberlin Copy Share Image
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