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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
— Voltaire
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
— Voltaire
Consequently they who assert that all is well have said a foolish thing, they should have said all is for the best.
— Voltaire
Who demonstrated to him that the Bay of Lisbon had been made on purpose for the Anabaptist to be drowned.
— Voltaire
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
— Voltaire
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
— Voltaire
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
— Voltaire
The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."
— Voltaire
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
— Voltaire
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
— Voltaire
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
— Voltaire
Voltaire said you know who is in control by what you can't say.
— Kris Saknussemm
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
— Voltaire
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
— Voltaire
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
— Voltaire
What! have you no monks who teach, who dispute, who govern, who cabal, and who burn people that are not of their opinion?
— Voltaire
Who are you, Nature?
I live in you;
for fifty years I have been seeking you,
and I have not found you yet. — Voltaire
I live in you;
for fifty years I have been seeking you,
and I have not found you yet. — Voltaire
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
— Voltaire
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
— Voltaire
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.
— Voltaire
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.
— Voltaire
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
— Voltaire
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
— Voltaire
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
— Voltaire
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
— Voltaire
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
— Voltaire
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
— Voltaire
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
— Voltaire
Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary
— Colin Dexter
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
— Voltaire
He who seeks truth should be of no country.
— Voltaire
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
— Voltaire
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
— Voltaire
Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.
— Voltaire
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
— Voltaire
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
— Voltaire