Voltaire Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Hilarious, Silly

• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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  Forgiveness, Failure, Errors

  Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”

• People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

  Voltaire

  Pain, Philosophical, Character

• What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Errors, Law, Tolerance

• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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  Tolerance, Humanity, Pardon Me

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.497, Voltaire

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