Voltaire Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Fear, Sleep

• Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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  God, Atheist, Religion

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

• Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

  Voltaire

  Passion, Inspire, Atheism

  Voltaire (2012). “Philosophical Dictionary”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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  Children, Heart, Religion

• All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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  God, Reality, Men

• The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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  Truth, Religion, Atheism

• Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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  Death, Atheist, Believe

• Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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  Atheist, Common Sense, Religion

• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

• You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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  Christian, Rome, Mind

• He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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  Dream, Reality, Men

• England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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  Atheist, Two, Religion

• A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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  Atheism, Clergymen, Expenses

• Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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  Religious, Atheist, Intelligent

• The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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  Atheist, Evil, Atheism

• Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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  Christian, Atheism, Meteors

  Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.45, Lulu.com

• Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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  Men, Doctors, Order

• Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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  Important Events, Atheism, Church

• What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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  People, Atheism, Candide

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.192, Penguin

• It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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  Father, Book, Atheism

• If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Favors

  Voltaire's Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750),

• Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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  Powerful, Garden, Atheism

• The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

  Voltaire

  Grease, Atheism, Charity

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