Voltaire Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

  Voltaire

  Mother, Men, Maturity

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.108, Penguin

• 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.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Evil, Atheism

• It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

  Voltaire

  Animal, Law, Feet

  Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.428, Wildside Press LLC

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