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Philosophical Dictionary QUOTES

Philosophical Dictionary QUOTES

1 " Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

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

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

3 " What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat? "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

4 " So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

5 " The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

6 " Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

7 " The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

8 " The best is the enemy of good. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

9 " It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

10 " Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.) "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

11 " It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

12 " What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

13 " Common sense is not so common. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

14 " Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

15 " He who would not wish his country to be bigger or smaller, richer or poorer, would be a citizen of the universe. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

16 " These two sentiments, "liberty and equality," do not necessarily lead to calumny, rapine, assassination, poisoning, and devastation of the lands of neighbors; but, the towering ambition and thirst for power of the great precipitate them head-long into every species of crime in all periods and all places. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

17 " Sect and error are synonymous. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

18 " One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

19 " What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions, and to reason correctly from them? "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary

20 " People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it. "

― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary