Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VoltaireStichwörter: injustice religion atheism skepticism absurdities atrocities barbarity
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
Voltairethe safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
VoltaireDoubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VoltaireStichwörter: doubt
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
VoltaireStichwörter: humanism intelligent-design
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
VoltaireIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VoltaireIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireStichwörter: dissent freedom-of-thought heresy
To hold a pen is to be at war.
VoltaireIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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