One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VOLTAIREThe only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
More Voltaire Quotes
-
-
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIRE -
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIRE -
Minds differ still more than faces.
VOLTAIRE -
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIRE -
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIRE -
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
VOLTAIRE -
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIRE -
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VOLTAIRE -
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIRE -
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
VOLTAIRE -
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIRE -
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIRE -
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.
VOLTAIRE -
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VOLTAIRE -
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIRE






