Voltaire Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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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
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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
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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 a distribution center…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.
— Frank Sinatra
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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
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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
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
— Bertrand Russell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
— Dennis Miller
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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
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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
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One does not arrest Voltaire.
— Charles de Gaulle
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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
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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
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Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.
— Paul Popenoe
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