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.
Voltaire Quotes
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.
Everything’s for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
The man who says to me, “Believe as I do, or God will damn you,” wil presently say, “Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you.”
To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Most of the great men of this world live as if they were atheists. Every man who has lived with his eyes open, knows that the knowledge of a God, his presence,and his justice, has not the slightest influence over the wars, the treaties, the objects of ambition, interest, or pleasure, in the pursuit of […]
The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inevitability.
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
