Voltaire Quotes, Nature Quotes, Animal Quotes

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Nature Quotes , Animal Quotes

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Years Quotes , Religion Quotes

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Names Quotes , Mad Quotes

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Real Quotes , Inequality Quotes

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Children Quotes , Heart Quotes

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Men Quotes , Liberty Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Taken Quotes , Book Quotes

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Doubt Quotes , Littles Quotes

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Abuse Quotes , Reform Quotes

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Birthday Quotes , Equality Quotes

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Stupidity Quotes

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Strong Quotes , Justice Quotes

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Law Quotes

We cannot wish for that we know not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Wish Quotes

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Communication Quotes , Wish Quotes

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Should Quotes , Said Quotes

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Men Quotes

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Heart Quotes