Famous Quotes

Quotes by Voltaire

• The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
• The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
• There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
• Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
• To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
• To hold a pen is to be at war.
• To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
• Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
• We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
• We are rarely proud when we are alone.
• We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
• What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
• What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
• What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
• When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.