Voltaire
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth21 November 1694
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
book beer judgement
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
book ambition beer
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.
stupidity doubt ridiculous
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
law race conquer
Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race...
god sides
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
political politics beast
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
enemy
Now is not the time for making new enemies.
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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
life dream nightmare
My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.
spiritual women learning
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
tragedy testicles composition
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
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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.
hate enemy superstitions
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.