Quotes by Voltaire

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

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

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it., May 16, 1767)

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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

Sil nexistait pas Dieu il faudrait linventer. (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

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

Wisdom must yield to superstitions rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.