"Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

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More Voltaire quotes
"Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
"S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
"I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood fa...
"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this ...