Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
Voltaire
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
Author
Autobiographer
Correspondent
Diarist
Encyclopédistes
Essayist
Historian
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Political Scientist
Paris
France
François-Marie Arouet
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
Dictator of Letters
Doe
Metaphysics
Speaks
Philosophy
Understand
Speak
Science
More quotes by Voltaire
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
Voltaire
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
Voltaire
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
Voltaire
Present opportunities are not to be neglected they rarely visit us twice.
Voltaire
It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.
Voltaire
Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.
Voltaire
Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
Voltaire
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
The road to the heart is the ear
Voltaire
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?
Voltaire
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
Voltaire
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.
Voltaire
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Voltaire
It is up to us to cultivate our garden.
Voltaire
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Voltaire
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
