Quotes Voltaire - page 5
Find dozens of Voltaire with images to copy and share.
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
You may also like
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
Will is wish, and liberty is power.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
A good action is preferable to an argument.
You may also like
I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.
