62 Quotes About Voltaire
- Author Voltaire
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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc... It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe
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- Author Mikhail Bakunin
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A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
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- Author Chris Anderson
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For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.
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- Author Kevin Ansbro
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Of course God exists. But God is no more a man than you are a snowflake.
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- Author Voltaire
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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!
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- Author Émilie Du Châtelet
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If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.
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- Author Voltaire
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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
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- Author Greg Proops
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I only read books if Voltaire's cock has been dipped in red ink and rolled over the cover.
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- Author Will Durant
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Perhaps, "for the common people a rewarding and avenging God" is necessary. Bayle had asked, If a society of atheists could subsist? Voltaire answers, "Yes, if they are also philosophers". But men are seldom philosophers.
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