If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
VOLTAIREThe more a man knows, the less he talks.
More Voltaire Quotes
-
-
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
VOLTAIRE -
Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE -
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIRE -
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
VOLTAIRE -
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIRE -
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VOLTAIRE -
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIRE -
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
VOLTAIRE -
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIRE -
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
VOLTAIRE -
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VOLTAIRE -
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
VOLTAIRE -
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIRE -
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIRE -
To hold a pen is to be at war.
VOLTAIRE -
Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE -
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIRE -
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIRE -
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VOLTAIRE -
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
VOLTAIRE -
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIRE -
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
VOLTAIRE -
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
VOLTAIRE -
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIRE -
Love truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIRE -
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIRE