"God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.












More Voltaire quotes
"It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
"If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense po...
"If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.
"S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
"The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose c...
"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
"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...
"Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.
"But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquak...
"A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contra...