"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.












History should be written as philosophy.
More Voltaire quotes
"By what incomprehensible mechanism are our organs held in subjection to sentiment and thought? How is it that a single melancholy idea shall disturb t...
"The perfect is the enemy of the good.
"Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not u...
"The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
"The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
"I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial a...
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures.