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Voltaire Quotes - Page 18

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

Truth, Freedom, Lying

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Party, Independent, Law

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

God, Military, War

"Great Thinkers Great Thoughts: One Thought Can Change Your World". Book published by Tejgyan Global Foundation, 2015.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Ideas, Stomach, Spite

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Power, Thinking, Ideas

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4520, Delphi Classics

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Character, Men, Way

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

Philosophy, Flames, World

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Book, Reading, Savages

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.390, e-artnow

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Prayer, Philosophy, Made

Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.304

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

Men, Spirit, Property

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4320, Delphi Classics

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

Sleep, Care, Given

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

Views, Philosopher, Originals

"Candide, or, Optimism".

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Philosophy, Discovery, Practice

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

Country, Time, Failure

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

Men, Evil, Sick

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4677, Delphi Classics

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Stupid, Book, Humorous

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Style, Addresses, Speech

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.202

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

Anxiety, Adore, Invoke

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.1747, e-artnow

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

People, Ignorant, Luck

Let us cultivate our garden.

Garden, Improvement

By Voltaire (2017). “Candide”, p.148, BookRix

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

Education, People, Reason

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Freedom, Power, Liberty

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.87, Penguin

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

Men, Instinct, Pursue

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3470, Delphi Classics

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Men, Burning, Earth

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.348, Penguin

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

Equality, Men, Rights

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