Voltaire Quotes about Nature

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Nature, Animal, Men

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

Death, Forgiveness, Nature

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Voltaire

Nature, Order, Eels

Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

Men argue. Nature acts.

Voltaire

Nature, Men, Arguing

Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.462, Voltaire

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

Voltaire

Inspirational, Life, Nature

What is not in nature can never be true.

Voltaire

Nature, Truth, Being True

Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.384, Wildside Press LLC

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

Voltaire

Art, Nature, Exercise

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.1619, e-artnow