Quotes By Author: Voltaire

“Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.”

“The heart has its own reasons that reason can’t understand.”

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”(Notebooks)”

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.”

“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.”

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”

“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.”

“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one”

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.”

“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”

“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”