God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIREJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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