Tim Goebel > Tim's Quotes

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
― Voltaire

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
― Voltaire

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
― Voltaire

“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
― Voltaire

“Let us cultivate our garden.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
― Voltaire

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
― Voltaire

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
― Voltaire

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
― Voltaire

“I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Tales

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
― Voltaire

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ”
― Voltaire

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

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
― Voltaire

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”
― Voltaire

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

(Notebooks)”
― Voltaire

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
― Voltaire

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.”
― Voltaire

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
― Voltaire

“Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?'
Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”
― voltaire

“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
― Voltaire

“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
― Voltaire

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
― Voltaire

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
― Voltaire

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
― Voltaire

“If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace”
― Voltaire

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
― Voltaire

“Minds differ still more than faces.”
― Voltaire