Voltaire Believe Quotations

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.