Voltaire Inspirational Quotations

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The best is the enemy of the good.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

A witty saying proves nothing.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

Paradise is where I am

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.