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Voltaire Quotes - Page 11

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

Dream, Reality, Men

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Christian, Atheist, Men

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2084, e-artnow

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

Beauty, Eye, Two

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

Pleasure

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.215, Penguin

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

Faith, Believe, Understanding

Voltaire, John G. Gorton (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.156

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

Funny, Life, Failure

"Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Wise, Daughter, Mother

Voltaire (1989). “Voltaire: selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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.

Christian, Believe, Men

There are no sects in geometry.

Math, Geometry, Sects

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.131, Penguin

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Atheist, Men, Deities

Voltaire (1769). “Letters addressed to his Highness the Prince of *****, containing comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian Religion”, p.51

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

Women, Inspiration, Secret

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

Growing Up, Men, Ideas

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Political, Politics, Speak

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Generosity, Empathy, Originality

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

Wise, Do The Best, Knows

Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

Race, Law, Conquer

Fame is a heavy burden.

Fame, Burden, Heavy

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Father, Pleasure

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

Men, Perfection, Doe

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

Life, Morality, Geometry

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

Art, Devil, Succeed

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

Creativity, Originality, Plagiarism

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

Freedom, Wish, Liberty

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

Grief, Secret, Calamity

Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.59, Xist Publishing

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