Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
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
Government
Characteristic
Giving
Credibility
Censorship
Characteristics
Opinions
Attack
Opinion
Give
Stringent
More quotes by Voltaire
One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.
Voltaire
Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.
Voltaire
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Voltaire
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
Voltaire
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once everything in nature is resurrection.
Voltaire
It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
Voltaire
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Voltaire
We never live we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
No, nothing has the power to part me from you our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.
Voltaire
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.
Voltaire
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
Voltaire
Change everything except your loves.
Voltaire
Discord is the great ill of mankind and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
Voltaire
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
Voltaire
There are no sects in geometry.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Voltaire
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
Voltaire
True power and true politeness are above vanity.
Voltaire
God created woman to tame man.
Voltaire
