Voltaire Quotes about Atheism

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

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

Voltaire

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

Voltaire

Passion, Inspire, Atheism

Voltaire (2012). “Philosophical Dictionary”, p.42, Courier Corporation

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Voltaire

Atheism, Clergymen, Expenses

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Voltaire

Atheist, Evil, Atheism

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Voltaire

Grease, Atheism, Charity

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

Voltaire

Christian, Men, Atheism

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

Truth, Religion, Atheism

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

Voltaire

Father, Book, Atheism

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

Voltaire

People, Atheism, Candide

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.192, Penguin

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Voltaire

Atheist, Atheism, Favors

Voltaire's Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750),

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Voltaire

Christian, Atheism, Meteors

Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.45, Lulu.com

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

Voltaire

Important Events, Atheism, Church

What can I hope when all is right?

Voltaire

Atheism, Positive Atheism

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

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

Voltaire

Powerful, Garden, Atheism

Voltaire Quotes about Atheism

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