Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Quote by Voltaire
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Voltaire Quotes
- Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
- Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
- All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
- It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
- Love truth, and pardon error.
- We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
- True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
- The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Best Quotes
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.