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More Voltaire quotes
"God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
"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...
"Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
"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.
"So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would ...