#voltaire

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.' ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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One does not arrest Voltaire. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#does #voltaire

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#man #voltaire

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind. ↗

— Émilie Du Châtelet

#engineering #math #passonate-minds #rights #science

God's only excuse is that He doesn't exist," remarked Voltaire after a natural disaster that killed many people. Nietzsche loved this quote and wished he'd coined it! ↗

— Voltaire

#sayings #voltaire #love

It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom. ↗

— Voltaire

#voltaire #faith

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

— Voltaire

#voltaire #laugh

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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And as Voltaire, one of our nation’s Founding Fathers, once said, “I do not agree with what you have to say, but at your death I’ll defend what you rightfully should have said. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#founding-father #funny #opinion #voltaire #death