Voltaire Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• 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.

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  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

• Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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  Christian, Men, Inspire

• 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

• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.

• When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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  Money, Humor, Religion

  Letter to Mme. d'Épinal, Ferney on December 62, 1760. "Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance". Book published by Garnier frères, Paris, Volume IX, letter #4390, p.124, 1881.

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

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  Truth, Believe, Evil People

• God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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  God, Spiritual, Circles

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.147, Penguin

• 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

• 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

• If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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  Cutting, Land, Two

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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

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  Atheist, Common Sense, Religion

• Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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  Years, Religion, Thank God

• The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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  Religion, Firsts, Fool

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

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  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

• I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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  Philosophy, Cutting, Religion

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.128, Penguin

• All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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  Men, Religion, Different

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.257

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

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  Atheist, Two, Religion

• If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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  Funny, Religion, Has Beens

• The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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  Party, Independent, Law

• In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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  Christian, Rome, Religion

• Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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  Silly, Religion, Priests

• Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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  Religion, Affair, Courses

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