Voltaire Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

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

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

I have spoken of love. It is hard to go from people who kiss one another to people who eat one another.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.