Quotes by Voltaire

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

“on doit des gards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vrit.”

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be e...”

“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.”

“Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.”

“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches...”

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

“S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

“Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.”

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed ...”

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”

“Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”

“Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.”

“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”