Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VoltaireFor can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
VoltaireIf one doesn't get what one wants in one world, one can always get it in another
VoltaireIt is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.
VoltaireStichwörter: racism
What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly.
VoltaireWhat is the verdict of the vastest mind?
Silence: the book of fate is closed to us.
Man is a stranger to his own research;
He knows not whence he comes, nor whither goes.
Tormented atoms in a bed of mud,
Devoured by death, a mockery of fate.
But thinking atoms, whose far-seeing eyes,
Guided by thought, have measured the faint stars,
Our being mingles with the infinite;
Ourselves we never see, or come to know.
It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least
VoltaireStichwörter: funny
self-esteem is a balloon filled with wind, from which great tempests surge when it is pricked
VoltaireI have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves. [in response to Rousseau's "The Social Contract"]
VoltaireI've had some experience of this love, this love that rules our hearts, which is the soul of our souls; all it got me was a kiss and twenty kicks in the ass. How could so beautiful a cause have produced in you such an abominable effect?
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