Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
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
Insane
Planets
Universe
Earth
Life
Asylum
Asylums
More quotes by Voltaire
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Voltaire
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
Voltaire
We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
Voltaire
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.
Voltaire
We must cultivate our own garden.
Voltaire
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
Voltaire
My life is a struggle.
Voltaire
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
Voltaire
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
Voltaire
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
Voltaire
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
Voltaire
Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!
Voltaire
Now is not the time for making new enemies.
Voltaire
Happiness is a good that nature sells us.
Voltaire
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.
Voltaire
The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
Voltaire
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Voltaire
