Voltaire Quotes

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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 the phrase of… — Mikhail Bakunin
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can… — Gabriel Byrne
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center… — Corrie Ten Boom
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do. — Frank Sinatra
There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an… — Thomas Huxley
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell
At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can… — Martin Gardner
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you… — Feist
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates… — Anton Chekhov
I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with… — Harlan Ellison
Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if… — Neel Burton
One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech. — Dennis Miller
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental… — Lytton Strachey
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows… — William Blake
One does not arrest Voltaire. — Charles de Gaulle
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200. — Paul Popenoe

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