What did Voltaire mean by: If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France Copy
+ Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Read explanation Author, March 17, 2023December 25, 2024, Voltaire, Optimism, Perseverance, Resilience, 0 Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France
Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world. Read explanation Author, December 27, 2023January 1, 2025, Voltaire, Disturbance, Thinking, 0 Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted. Read explanation Author, December 27, 2023January 1, 2025, Voltaire, Persecution, Truth, 0 Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France
+ The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment. Read explanation Author, July 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Voltaire, Justice, Morality, Punishment, 0 Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. Read explanation Author, December 27, 2023January 1, 2025, Voltaire, Equality, Meritocracy, Virtue, 0 Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France
+ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Read explanation Author, May 22, 2023December 25, 2024, Voltaire, Deception, Manipulation, Violence, 0 Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France
+ It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. Author, June 22, 2023January 2, 2025, Voltaire, Influence, Resistance, Time, 0 Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France
+ What can we say with certainty? Author, September 12, 2023January 2, 2025, Voltaire, Certainty, Knowledge, Truth, 0 Voltaire Philosopher and writer · France
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation. Frederick Sommer Photographer · USA
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of reason, or give up existence. Friedrich Engels Philosopher, social scientist, and political theorist · Germany
