Voltaire Quotes

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
My life is a struggle.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
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21 November, 1694
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