366 ordspråk av François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire föddes den
21 november 1694 och dog den 30 mei
1778 - One of the greatest of all French authors.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
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I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write
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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition
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I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
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I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
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I doubt not that in due time, when the arts are brought to perfection, some means will be found to give a sound head to a man who has none at all
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I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me.
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue
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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil
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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
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