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title: "95 Voltaire Quotes by 69 authors"
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> [One does not arrest Voltaire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-de-gaulle/one-does-not-arrest-voltaire/)

[Charles de Gaulle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-de-gaulle/)

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> [One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-miller/one-man-s-voltaire-is-another-man-s-screech/)

[Dennis Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-miller/)

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> [Voltaire was a smart cookie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-perry/voltaire-was-a-smart-cookie/)

[John Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-perry/)

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> [It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-the-great/it-is-impossible-to-imitate-voltaire-without-being-voltaire/)

[Frederick The Great](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-the-great/)

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> [“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/originality-is-nothing-but-judicious-imitation-so-said-voltaire-the/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-sinatra/to-do-is-to-be-descartes-to-be-is-to-do-voltaire-do-be-do-be-do/)

[Frank Sinatra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-sinatra/)

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> [“Voltaire: “Judge a man by his questions, not his answers.”6”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-brynjolfsson/voltaire-judge-a-man-by-his-questions-not-his-answers-6/)

[Erik Brynjolfsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-brynjolfsson/)

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> [Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-popenoe/pascal-and-voltaire-both-probably-had-iqs-in-the-neighborhood-of-200/)

[Paul Popenoe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-popenoe/)

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> [“Voltaire, rightly commented that it was ‘neither Holy, nor Roman nor an Empire’.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-lascelles/voltaire-rightly-commented-that-it-was-neither-holy-nor-roman-nor-an/)

[Christopher Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-lascelles/)

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> [“God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh – Voltaire (1694-1778)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-a-james/god-is-a-comic-playing-to-an-audience-that-s-afraid-to-laugh-voltaire/)

[Craig A. James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-a-james/)

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> [After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mason-cooley/after-voltaire-envy-is-chained-to-the-portico-of-the-temple-of-glory/)

[Mason Cooley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mason-cooley/)

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> [Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/thus-though-i-dislike-to-differ-with-such-a-great-man-voltaire-was/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakunin/a-jealous-lover-of-human-liberty-deeming-it-the-absolute-condition-of/)

[Mikhail Bakunin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakunin/)

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> [Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/voltaire-made-up-his-mind-to-destroy-the-superstition-of-his-time-he/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [“From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-powell/from-may-1717-to-april-1718-voltaire-sat-comfortably-in-the-infamous/)

[Jessica Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-powell/)

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> [“Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corrie-ten-boom/voltaire-expected-that-within-fifty-years-of-his-lifetime-there-would/)

[Corrie Ten Boom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corrie-ten-boom/)

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> [“If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist." (Voltaire)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kales/if-god-did-not-exist-it-would-be-necessary-to-invent-him-but-all/)

[Elizabeth Kales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-kales/)

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> [“One day everything will be well, that is our hope,’ said Voltaire; ‘today everything is fine, that is our illusion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-c-grayling/one-day-everything-will-be-well-that-is-our-hope-said-voltaire-today/)

[A.C. Grayling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-c-grayling/)

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> [O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/o-voltaire-o-humanity-o-idiocy-there-is-something-ticklish-in-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [“Fresh-bearded young men with beautiful skin and long guns on Boulevard Voltaire gazing into the beautiful, disbelieving eyes of their own generation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/fresh-bearded-young-men-with-beautiful-skin-and-long-guns-on/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

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> [“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc... It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-am-convinced-that-everything-has-come-down-to-us-from-the-banks-of-2/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mallinder/even-if-that-statement-was-ambiguous-we-kind-of-wanted-to-cause-a/)

[Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mallinder/)

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> [Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-barton/voltaire-spoke-of-the-bible-as-a-short-lived-book-he-said-that-within/)

[Bruce Barton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-barton/)

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> [Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-maxwell/enlightenment-writer-and-philosopher-voltaire-likened-life-to-a-game/)

[John C. Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-maxwell/)

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> [There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/there-is-a-remarkable-nimbleness-of-style-a-balancing-act-of-tone-in/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

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> [“Voltaire was soon turned, with Catherine’s encouragement, into a patron saint for the secular Russian aristocracy. Voltairianism, vaguely signifying rationalism, scepticism and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pankaj-mishra/voltaire-was-soon-turned-with-catherine-s-encouragement-into-a-patron/)

[Pankaj Mishra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pankaj-mishra/)

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> [“The closest that either Voltaire or the other historical geniuses of the age -- Hume and Gibbon -- came to understanding unreason's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-closest-that-either-voltaire-or-the-other-historical-geniuses-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joscelyn-godwin/the-treatise-of-the-three-impostors-is-a-book-that-enjoyed-centuries/)

[Joscelyn Godwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joscelyn-godwin/)

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> [“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/as-a-convinced-atheist-i-ought-to-agree-with-voltaire-that-judaism-is/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/as-a-rule-theologians-know-nothing-of-this-world-and-far-less-of-the/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [“In this short philosophical novel he completely undermined the kind of optimism about humanity and the universe that Pope and Leibniz had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-warburton/in-this-short-philosophical-novel-he-completely-undermined-the-kind/)

[Nigel Warburton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-warburton/)

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> [“Shocked? I consider Bob one of the constellations of our time — of our country — America — a bright, magnificent constellation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/shocked-i-consider-bob-one-of-the-constellations-of-our-time-of-our/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up. Somebody said that, but I can’t remember who.” “Voltaire,” the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/ideas-are-like-beards-men-don-t-have-them-until-they-grow-up-somebody/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spalding-thomas/robert-ingersoll-s-character-was-as-nearly-perfect-as-it-is-possible/)

[Charles Spalding Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spalding-thomas/)

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> [“If I were to announce that I had suddenly converted to Catholicism, I know that Larry Taunton and Douglas Wilson would feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/if-i-were-to-announce-that-i-had-suddenly-converted-to-catholicism-i/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [ “\[Voltaire\] was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mallon/voltaire-was-generally-unbedeviled-by-any-foolish-consistency/)

[Thomas Mallon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mallon/)

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> [“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/think-for-yourself-and-let-others-enjoy-the-privilege-of-doing-so-too/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/god-is-a-comedian-playing-to-an-audience-that-is-too-afraid-to-laugh/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/i-am-bored-in-france-because-everyone-resembles-voltaire/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

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> [“Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I’m with him on that.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-chamberlin/voltaire-you-know-him-he-said-that-a-man-should-cultivate-his-own/)

[Holly Chamberlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holly-chamberlin/)

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                        "text": "The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.",
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                        "text": "“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, but not without acknowledging that Judaism is dialectical. There is, after all, a specifically Jewish version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with a specifically Jewish name—the Haskalah —for itself. The term derives from the word for 'mind' or 'intellect,' and it is naturally associated with ethics rather than rituals, life rather than prohibitions, and assimilation over 'exile' or 'return.' It's everlastingly linked to the name of the great German teacher Moses Mendelssohn, one of those conspicuous Jewish hunchbacks who so upset and embarrassed Isaiah Berlin. (The other way to upset or embarrass Berlin, I found, was to mention that he himself was a cousin of Menachem Schneerson, the 'messianic' Lubavitcher rebbe .) However, even pre-enlightenment Judaism forces its adherents to study and think, it reluctantly teaches them what others think, and it may even teach them how to think also.”",
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                        "text": "“In this short philosophical novel he completely undermined the kind of optimism about humanity and the universe that Pope and Leibniz had expressed, and he did it in such an entertaining way that the book became an instant bestseller. Wisely Voltaire left his name off the title page, otherwise its publication would have landed him in prison again for making fun of religious beliefs. Candide is the central character. His name suggests innocence and purity. At the start of the book, he is a young servant who falls hopelessly in love with his master's daughter, Cunégonde, but is chased out of her father's castle when he is caught in a compromising position with her. From then on, in a fast-moving and often fantastical tale, he travels through real and imaginary countries with his philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss, until he finally meets up with his lost love Cunégonde again, though by now she is old and ugly. In a series of comical episodes Candide and Pangloss witness terrible events and encounter a range of characters along the way, all of whom have themselves suffered terrible misfortunes. Voltaire uses the philosophy tutor, Pangloss, to spout a caricatured version of Leibniz's philosophy, which the writer then pokes fun at. Whatever happens, whether it is a natural disaster, torture, war, rape, religious persecution or slavery, Pangloss treats it as further confirmation that they live in the best of all possible worlds. Rather than causing him to rethink his beliefs, each disaster just increases his confidence that everything is for the best and this is how things had to be to produce the most perfect situation. Voltaire takes great delight in revealing Pangloss' refusal to see what is in front of him, and this is meant to mock Leibniz's optimism. But to be fair to Leibniz, his point wasn't that evil doesn't occur, but rather that the evil that does exist was needed to bring about the best possible world. It does, however, suggest that there is so much evil in the world that it is hardly likely that Leibniz was right – this can't be the minimum needed to achieve a good result. There is just too much pain and suffering in the world for that to be true. In”",
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