Voltaire Quotes
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He who seeks truth should be of no country.
[Truth]
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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
[Fools]
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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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History should be written as philosophy.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
[Superstition]
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I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
[Opinion]
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
[Never]
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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
[Ideas]
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