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Voltaire Quotes - Page 26

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the

Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

Christian, Taken, Years

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Math, Science, Imagination

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.1187, e-artnow

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Happy Times, History, Virtue

Voltaire, John Morley, William F. Fleming, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1904). “The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history”

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

Enemy

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Giving, Letters, Woe

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Character, Men, Reputation

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

Strong, Eye, Math

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Soul, Mistress, Half

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.

Grace, Burning, Distraction

Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

Art, Science, Noble

Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.110

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Purpose, Made

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

History, Invention, Imaginative

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Country, Heart, Spots

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Historical, Records, Crime

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Funny, Religion, Has Beens

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

Men, Heaven, Appearance

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

Fashion, Clothes, Fancy

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4563, Delphi Classics

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Father, Book, Desire

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Doubt, Ridiculous, Certainty

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Music, Animal, Class

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.238

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

Strong, Drinking, Men

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

Sins Not, Genius, Sin

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

Egypt, Doe, Boards

Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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

Taken, Thinking, Blood

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Lying, Feet, Arms

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