Voltaire Quotes, Nature Quotes, Order Quotes

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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