Quotes By Voltaire
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Voltaire
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire