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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
~ Voltaire ~












More Voltaire quotes
"In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc
"S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)
"Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.
"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.
"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your t...
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
"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...