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Voltaire Quotes |
Reposted from another spiritual forum, a pretty hip one. Enjoy.
A witty saying proves nothing.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,
make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless
they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With
this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to
make it possible for you to continue to write.
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right
to say it.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Common sense is not so common.
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to
cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they
know nothing.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature
cures the disease.
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished
were of course exterminated.
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my
enemies.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined
that virginity could be a virtue.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without
working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once
when I won one.
Canada: A few acres of snow.
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated
The superfluous is very necessary.
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to
enlighten oneself and others.
If we can't find something pleasant, we will at least find something
new.
We're neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or
nothing about it.
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
Maybe we're all doing too much singing, eh?
Perhaps we should all remember this:
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in
others belong to us as well.
This is no time to make new enemies.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778), when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.
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