Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
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
Universe
Subjugate
Force
Antiwar
War
Village
Mind
Entire
Would
Minds
Easier
Single
Peace
More quotes by Voltaire
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Voltaire
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
Voltaire
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
Voltaire
It is love love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
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
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
Voltaire
To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
Voltaire
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
Voltaire
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Voltaire
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.
Voltaire
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
Voltaire
The way to become boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
Voltaire
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Voltaire
The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
Voltaire
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.
Voltaire
