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    Voltaire

    Read through the most famous quotes from Voltaire




    The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #enables #get #possess #reason #those

    To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #dead #living #only #owe #truth

    No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #ever #feels #responsible #snowflake

    Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #astronomy #daughter #daughters #dominated #earth

    Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #madness #miserable #optimism #well

    The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #man #ocean #progress #rapid #rivers

    Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #common #common sense #contrary #more #nothing

    One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #deny #few #fewer #merit #more

    It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #human #human mind #imagined #mind #superstitions

    We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. ↗


    — Voltaire

    #born #cultivate #eden #garden #man






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    Did you know about Voltaire?

    He broke from the tradition of narrating diplomatic and military events and emphasized customs social history and achievements in the arts and sciences. Fearing an indefinite prison sentence Voltaire suggested that he be exiled to England as an alternative punishment which the French authorities accepted. Nevertheless he continued to write producing essays and historical studies.

    [clarification needed] As a satirical polemicist he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance religious dogma and the French institutions of his day. Voltaire was a versatile writer producing works in almost every literary form including plays poems novels essays and historical and scientific works. swa ma.

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