Voltaire Quotes About Humanity

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  • What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

    Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”
  • What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

  • The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

  • People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

  • What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

    Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.497, Voltaire
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