Superfluous Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “The superfluous is the most necessary.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Superfluous
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today.… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr Copy Share Image
All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
