Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Everything can be borne except contempt.
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
Scorn
Contempt
Except
Everything
Borne
More quotes by Voltaire
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most
Voltaire
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
Voltaire
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
Voltaire
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Voltaire
Dare to think for yourself.
Voltaire
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Voltaire
Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes all their learning consists in our credulity.
Voltaire
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
Voltaire
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
Voltaire
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
Voltaire
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good we do the best we know.
Voltaire
Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
Voltaire
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
Voltaire
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
Voltaire
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.
Voltaire
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
Voltaire
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire
Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!
Voltaire
