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Voltaire Quotes - Page 28

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

Optimistic, Garden

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.

Taken, Book, Men

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

Writing, Names, Snow

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

Luck, Annoying

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

Expression, Ideas, Wish

What can I hope when all is right?

Atheism, Positive Atheism

Voltaire (2008). “The complete works of Voltaire”

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

War, Philosopher, Oppressed

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.1604, e-artnow

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

Order, Tears, Intolerance

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4769, Delphi Classics

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

Cheer, Mean, Eating

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.186, Penguin

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

Character, Water, Ignorant

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.1847, e-artnow

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Torment, Greater, Offenders

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

Bears, Helping, Burden

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

Swimming, Animal, Perfectly Good

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

Strong, Justice, Citizens

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.

Doubt, Littles, Might

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.171, Penguin

Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

Kings, War, Europe

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.152, Penguin

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

Acceptance, Destiny, Prudent

Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.159, Voltaire

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Christian, Rome, Religion

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Excellent, Middle, Dregs

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Years, Two, Luxury

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

Virtue

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

Liars, Silly, Men

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.201, Penguin

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

Garden, Candide

Voltaire (2015). “Candide”, p.123, Booklassic

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

Able, Swear

Voltaire (2017). “Socrates”, p.10, Litres

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Philosophy, Mean, Doe

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