Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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
Reason
Complexes
Find
Complex
Human
Reasons
Humans
Wants
Believe
Wonderful
Enabling
Men
Brain
Organ
Whatever
Organs
Power
Continuing
More quotes by Voltaire
To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.
Voltaire
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
Voltaire
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
Voltaire
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
Voltaire
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
Voltaire
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
Voltaire
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply it is for your work alone to make answer.
Voltaire
A witty quote proves nothing.
Voltaire
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
Voltaire
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
Voltaire
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
Voltaire
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
Voltaire
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
Voltaire
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
Voltaire
We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
Voltaire
Love has various lodgings the same word does not always signify the same thing.
Voltaire
