20 Best Voltaire Quotes to Think About

     Voltaire Quotes: The 20 most incredible, remarkable and nostalgic phrases of this cultural icon. Messages, Excerpts, Quotes, Thoughts, and Motivational Phrases!

Who was Voltaire?

     Voltaire, known for his wit and wit in defending civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade, is one of many Enlightenment figures whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the French and American Revolutions. A prolific writer, Voltaire produced around 70 works in almost all literary forms, signing plays, poems, novels, essays, scientific and historical works, over 20,000 letters, and over 2,000 books and pamphlets.

     He was an outspoken advocate of social reform despite strict censorship laws and severe punishments for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he often used his works to criticize the Catholic Church and French institutions of his day. Voltaire is the patriarch of Ferney. He was known for directing harsh criticisms of absolutist kings and the privileges of the clergy and nobility.

Voltaire Quotes to Think About:

• "No opinion is worth burning your neighbor."
  

• "We never live; we are always looking forward to living."

• "Faith consists in believing what reason cannot."

• "Don't think that money does everything or you'll end up doing everything for money."

• "Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able to rise above the ideas of the age."

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

• "Sensual pleasure passes and disappears, but friendship between us, mutual trust, delight of the heart, enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed."

• "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

• "Despite the enormous amount of books, how many people read! And if we read with profit, we will realize how much rubbish the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."

• "The comfort of the rich depends on an abundant supply from the poor."

• "The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood."

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Voltaire Icon's Best Quotes:

• "Our wretched species is made in such a way that whoever walks the well-trodden path always throws stones at whoever is showing a new path."
  

• "Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, as it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it depended on us, there is no one who is not perfect. We think we are masters of everything; but when you reflect, you realize that you are master of nothing."

• "A witty saying proves nothing."

• "The mouth obeys badly when the heart murmurs."

• "Tears are the silent language of grief."

• "Theology is to religion what poisons are to food."

• "It is dangerous to be right in matters where established authorities are wrong."

• "The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us."

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

• "The only way to understand what mathematicians mean by Infinite is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."

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