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
fear punishment prison
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
dad children father
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
superstitions belief thirds
Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.
taken thinking blood
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
optimistic garden
Learn to cultivate your own garden.
christian jesus taken
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror...
funny life work
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
dream reality men
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
life morality geometry
There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.
atheist tyrants soul
If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?
lying feet arms
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
inspiration heart ears
The road to the heart is the ear
religion fool firsts
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
love
Change everything except your loves.