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Voltaire Quotes about Philosophy

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Funny, Witty, Philosophy

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

Philosophy, Men, Desire

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.118

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

Philosophy, Cutting, Religion

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.128, Penguin

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Philosophy, Eels, Flour

Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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

Philosophy, Flames, World

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

Philosophy, Discovery, Practice

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Philosophy, Men, Speak

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

1759 Candide, ch.30.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

Art, Brother, Philosophy

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Philosophy, Views, Serious

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4541, Delphi Classics

The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

Philosophy, Science, Simple

Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4649, e-artnow

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Philosophy, Science, Doe

"Dictionnaire Philosophique". Book by Voltaire (translated), June 1764.

History should be written as philosophy.

Philosophy, History, Should

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

Philosophy, Complaining, Always Complaining

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.357

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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