Voltaire
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth21 November 1694
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
future pregnancy goal
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
cutting men heaven
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
birthday age misery
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
ignorance knowledge would-be
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.
soul comfort candide
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
love self anorexia
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
death respect dying
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
gossip waiting news
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
philosophy history should
History should be written as philosophy.
god religious atheist
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
law opinion cry
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
passion wind would-be
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
freedom truth lying
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
fighting history architecture
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.