God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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