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News
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Opinion
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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Passion
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Patience
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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People
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The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Philosophy
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The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Pleasure
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Poetry
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Practice
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The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Prayer
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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Prejudice
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Pride
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Problems
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Punishment
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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Questions
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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Reading
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Reason
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Books by and about Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)