Top 12 Voltaire Letter Quotes
#1. I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
Taylor Momsen
#2. You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.
Wallace D. Wattles
#3. And then she was looking up into the deep-set, dark eyes of the Marquess of Rockley.
Colleen Gleason
#4. Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Edgar Allan Poe
#5. In Panama, I found a spider that eats its own limbs during lean times. I am told they grow back. But though the distinction is razor-thin, desperation is not the same thing as determination. Nevertheless, auto-cannibalism is one the most intriguing phenomenon I have ever heard of.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#6. Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
[In a letter to Frederick the Great]
Voltaire
#7. As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.
[Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777]
Frederick The Great
#9. Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire
#10. When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.
Chris Toumazou
#11. After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said in a letter to Voltaire}
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#12. The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
