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
born five god knowledge men nose
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
behold days french-writer god heaven night sky stars sun
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
running loss god-provides
the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.
god sides
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
god christian believe
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
years religion thank-god
Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.
god military war
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
god atheist religion
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
drinking food godly
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
god spiritual circles
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
funny life god
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
god reality men
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
god spiritual imagine
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
god religious atheist
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.