Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Voltaire

Read through the most famous quotes from Voltaire




Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.


— Voltaire


#reading #stupidity

Dare to think for yourself.


— Voltaire


#freedom

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.


— Voltaire


#religion #religion

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.


— Voltaire


#voltaire #laugh

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.


— Voltaire


#did #every #every man #guilty #man

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.


— Voltaire


#dangerous #established #matters #right #which

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)


— Voltaire


#enemies #satan #enemy

Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire. (The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)" (Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738)


— Voltaire


#dullness #restraint #writing #secret

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.


— Voltaire


#believe #believing #beyond #consists #power

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.


— Voltaire


#food






About Voltaire






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.

back to top