Quotes by Voltaire

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.