To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
By Voltaire
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
By Voltaire
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
By Voltaire
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
By Voltaire
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
By Voltaire
Common sense is not so common.
By Voltaire
The superfluous is very necessary.
By Voltaire
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
By Voltaire
Tears are the silent language of grief.
By Voltaire
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.
By Voltaire
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
By Voltaire
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
By Voltaire
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
By Voltaire
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
By Voltaire
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
By Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing.
By Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
By Voltaire
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
By Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
By Voltaire
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
By Voltaire
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
By Voltaire
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
By Voltaire
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
By Voltaire
