Voltaire Bible Quotes

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart. ~ Voltaire

People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities. ~ Voltaire

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. ~ Bertrand Russell

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth! ~ Voltaire

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible. ~ Voltaire

How many things here do I not want (Voltaire when in London. ~ Voltaire

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. ~ Voltaire

Contemplation of the stupidity which deems happiness possible almost made Voltaire happy. ~ Voltaire

God's only excuse is that He doesn't exist, remarked Voltaire after a natural disaster that killed many people. Nietzsche loved this quote and wished he'd coined it! ~ Voltaire

You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world. ~ Voltaire

We must cultivate our garden. ~ Voltaire

To paraphrase Voltaire: if they can make you believe in their absurdities, they can make you commit their atrocities. ~ Voltaire

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire ~ Voltaire

It is given to us to calculate, to weigh, to measure, to observe, this is natural philosophy; almost all the rest is chimera. ~ Voltaire

this is how men treat one another. ~ Voltaire

Tears are the silent language of grief ~ Voltaire

To have preferences, but not exclusions. ~ Voltaire

There are no sects in geometry. ~ Voltaire

Change everything except your loves. ~ Voltaire

He vainly said that human will is free, ~ Voltaire

Dare to think for yourself. ~ Voltaire

History is a collection of agreed upon lies. ~ Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing. ~ Voltaire

Man is free the instant he wants to be. ~ Voltaire

Pangloss taught metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology. ~ Voltaire

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. ~ Voltaire

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything. ~ Voltaire

It is difficult to free people from the chains they revere. ~ Voltaire

Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence. ~ Voltaire

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. ~ Voltaire

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on ... ~ Voltaire

Crush the infamous thing! ~ Voltaire

I suspected as much. ~ Voltaire

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal. ~ Voltaire

Upon such slender threads as these do the fates of mortals hang ~ Voltaire

When thou eatest, give to the dogs, should they even bite thee. ~ Voltaire

Man is free the moment he wants to be. ~ Voltaire

Religion, far from being beneficial food, turns to poison in infected brains. ~ Voltaire

Let us help one another to bear our burdens. ~ Voltaire

Perfect is the enemy of good. ~ Voltaire

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. ~ Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. ~ Voltaire

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. ~ Voltaire

Our work keeps us free of three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty." As ~ Voltaire

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. ~ Voltaire

Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home. ~ Voltaire

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ~ Voltaire

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart. ~ Voltaire

The women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run. ~ Voltaire

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. ~ Voltaire

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day. ~ Voltaire

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. ~ Voltaire

The Flames? Already? ~ Voltaire

This is no time to make new enemies. ~ Voltaire

The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand. ~ Voltaire

Isn't there a pleasure in criticising everything and discovering faults where other men detect beauties? ~ Voltaire

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything
in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.'
'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. ~ Voltaire

You guys, stop misattributing white nationalist quotes to me. Like, super seriously, it's not cool, dudes. ~ Voltaire

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion. ~ Voltaire

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~ Voltaire

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. ~ Voltaire

My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue, ~ Voltaire

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love. ~ Voltaire

What can I hope when all is right? ~ Voltaire

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person ~ Voltaire

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged. ~ Voltaire

Historians are gossips who tease the dead ~ Voltaire

The nose has been formed to bear spectacles - thus we have spectacles. ~ Voltaire

These marranos go wherever there is money to be made. ~ Voltaire

we often meet with those whom we expected never to see more; ~ Voltaire

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities. ~ Voltaire

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ~ Voltaire

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer. ~ Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. ~ Voltaire

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions, and to reason correctly from them? ~ Voltaire

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms. ~ Voltaire

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful. ~ Voltaire

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure. ~ Voltaire

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste. ~ Voltaire

Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state. ~ Voltaire

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance ~ Voltaire

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing. ~ Voltaire

You are very hard of belief," said Candide. "I have lived," said Martin. ~ Voltaire

The Baron was one of Westphalia's most potent aristocrats, since his mansion boasted both a door and windows. ~ Voltaire

God created women only to tame men. ~ Voltaire

History is the study of the world's crime ~ Voltaire

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food ~ Voltaire

Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter. ~ Voltaire

His face was the true index of his mind. ~ Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased. ~ Voltaire

Almost all life depends on probabilities. ~ Voltaire

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens. ~ Voltaire

I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes. ~ Voltaire

It is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity. ~ Voltaire

Freedom is to depend only on the law and not on men's whims. ~ Voltaire

You sweet delusions of my mind
(From the poem 'From Love to Friendship') ~ Voltaire

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. ~ Voltaire

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage. ~ Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ~ Voltaire

Everything can be borne except contempt. ~ Voltaire