Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
Voltaire · The source reads: “La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les èteint. Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.”
Voltaire: French philosopher and satirist of the Enlightenment, 1694 to 1778.
Voltaire · The source reads: “La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les èteint. Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. The best is the enemy of the good.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” · The old Turk's wisdom in the last chapter of Candide.
Voltaire · The source reads: “Le superflu, chose trés nècessaire. The superfluous is very necessary.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
Often credited to Voltaire · The sentence is S. G. Tallentyre's summary of Voltaire's attitude, in The Friends of Voltaire, 1906.
Voltaire · The source reads: “Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles. All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “Le secret d'ennuyer est...de tout dire. The way to be a bore is to say everything.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “Tous les genres sont bons hors le genre ennuyeux. All styles are good save the tiresome kind.”
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