Voltaire Quotes, Lying Quotes, Play Quotes

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Lying Quotes , Play Quotes

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Climbing Quotes , History Quotes

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Failure Quotes , Giving Quotes

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Funny Quotes , Life Quotes

Only your friends steal your books.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Book Quotes

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Children Quotes , Monsters Quotes

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Mother Quotes , Men Quotes

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Self Quotes

History is the study of the world's crime

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , World Quotes , Study Quotes

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Art Quotes , Science Quotes

Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Money Quotes

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Encouragement Quotes , Hard Work Quotes

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Jealous Quotes , Men Quotes

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Important Quotes , Speech Quotes

Perfect is the enemy of good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Perfection Quotes

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Grace Quotes , Burning Quotes

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Christian Quotes , Rome Quotes

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Believe Quotes , Proof Quotes

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Education Quotes , People Quotes

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Astrology Quotes , Etc Quotes