Voltaire Quotes And Sayings

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“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
– Voltaire

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
– Voltaire

“Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion. ”
– Voltaire

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”
– Voltaire

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
– Voltaire

“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.”
– Voltaire

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
– Voltaire

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

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

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”
– Voltaire

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

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natural; the author should have a thorough knowledge of the human heart and make it speak properly; he should be a complete poet, without showing an affectation of it in any of the characters of his piece; he should be a perfect master of his language, speak it with all its purity and with the utmost harmony, and yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme. Whoever, added he, neglects any one of these rules, though he may write two or three tragedies with tolerable success, will never be reckoned in the number of good authors.”
– Voltaire

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. We do not pray to him at all, said the reverend sage. We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”
– Voltaire

“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.”
– Voltaire

“He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.”
– Voltaire

“History is the study of the worlds crime”
– Voltaire

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
– Voltaire

“History should be written as philosophy.”
– Voltaire

“I am ignorant of how I was formed and how I was born. Through a quarter of my lifetime I was absolutely ignorant of the reasons for everything I saw and heard and felt, and was merely a parrot prompted by other parrots… When I sought to advance along that infinite course, I could neither find one single footpath or fully discover one single object, and from the upward leap I made to contemplate eternity I fell back into the abyss of my ignorance.”
– Voltaire

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”
– Voltaire

“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.”
– Voltaire

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but Ill defend to the death your right to say it.”
– Voltaire

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
– Voltaire

“I hate women because they always know where things are.”
– Voltaire

“I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?”
– Voltaire

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
– Voltaire

“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”
– Voltaire

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
– Voltaire

“I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person”
– Voltaire

“I have seen the world.”
– Voltaire

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