Francois Marie Arouet Quotes

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  Praying to god is flattering oneself into thinking that with words we can change all of nature.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in God, Nature

  Tags in Change, Praying
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  Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Uncertainty, Certainty
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  It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wrong, Dangerous
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  Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Make

• I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Self, Freedom

• One goes to see a tragedy to be moved, to the opera one goes either for want of any other interest or to facilitate digestion.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• God is on the side not of the big battalions, but of the best shots.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• This enormous dunghill.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The best is the enemy of the good.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• Faith consists in believing what reason cannot… In order to believe something, it is not enough that it should be possible.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• This state which was called and is still called the Holy Roman Empire, was not in any way holy, or Roman or an Empire.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• In fact, history is nothing but a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy puts out the fire.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• You know that these two nations have been at war over a few acres of snow near Canada, and that they are spending on this fine struggle more than Canada itself is worth.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I am the best-tempered man there ever was, yet I have killed three men, and two of them were priests!

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• ‘Well said’, Candide replied, ‘but we must cultivate our own garden.’

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

• In this country it is considered a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized
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  Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Spoken, Sung

Francois Marie Arouet (276)

Birth:	21st November, 1694
Death:	30th May, 1778
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher, Writer

About

François-Marie Arouet 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. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.

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