Quotes by Voltaire

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of >>

Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurab >>

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. >>

Quotations about Imagination

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right >>

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirab >>

What is now proved was only once imagined. >>

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire