Quotes By Voltaire

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Injustice in the end produces independence.