Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The road to the heart is the ear
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
Ears
Road
Inspiration
Heart
More quotes by Voltaire
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
Voltaire
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
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
It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.
Voltaire
Fame is a heavy burden.
Voltaire
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire
Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.
Voltaire
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
Voltaire
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
Voltaire
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.
Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
Voltaire
