Quotes by Voltaire

"A witty saying proves nothing."

"Everyone is guilty of the good they didn't do."

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

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

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel."

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."

"Common sense is not so common."

"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."

"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

"It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music."

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother."

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."

"The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."

"Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe."

"When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy."