VOLTAIRE QUOTES ABOUT GOD

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

“But I have always thought that the Devil would be reasonable company if he were not the Devil.”

“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”

“To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.”

“The ancients, when they had produced a sound, always observed it attentively, to discover if it were sonorous; and they chose rather to regulate the voice by the ear than by any artificial method.”

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” QUOTES TO MAKE HER DAY BETTER

“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.”

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

“I may not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”

“If God created us in His image, we have more than reciprocated.”