The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Weitere Zitate von Voltaire
Zum Autor"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
"History should be written as philosophy."
"The world embarrasses me and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker."
"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
"All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God."