Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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
Goal
Future
Pregnancy
Pregnant
Present
More quotes by Voltaire
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
Voltaire
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord it is the enemy of mankind.
Voltaire
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
Voltaire
Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?
Voltaire
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
Voltaire
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
Voltaire
We never live we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
Voltaire
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Voltaire
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
Voltaire
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. We do not pray to him at all, said the reverend sage. We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.
Voltaire
Excellently observed, answered Candide but let us cultivate our garden.
Voltaire
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft but we do not steal that which is given to us.
Voltaire
If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.
Voltaire
