有关伏尔泰经典语录
3、Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ----《老实人》
4、除了懒人之外,所有的人都是善良的。 假使你不愿自杀,你最好找点工作做。
8、思想寓于躯体,但尽管如此,身体最健壮的人不一定就是杰出的思想家。
9、观念不仅来自于感觉,而且受感觉的制约,感觉越多,观念也就越多,如果没有感觉到一种东西,人们是无法对这种东西有什么观念的。 ----《哲学书简》
11、先生,我收到了你反对人类的新著,我感谢你。没有人会动用如此心力来教唆人类返回动物状态。读尊著,使人渴慕四脚爬行。谢天谢地,我遗忘这种习惯已经六十多年了。 ----《驳卢梭“论人类不平等的起源和基础”》
12、It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
19、不是事业为了思想,而是思想为了事业
22、世界上本来就没有神,但可别告诉我的仆人,免得他半夜偷偷把我宰了。
23、什么是宽容?宽容是人性的附属物。我们满是弱点和错误,让我们为我们的愚蠢互相原谅吧。 ----《自由主义的两张面孔》
24、使人疲惫的不是远方的高山,而是鞋子里的一粒沙子。 ----《格言》
25、Voltaire
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
26、走进威斯敏斯特教堂,人们所瞻仰的不是君王们的陵寝,而是国家为感谢那些为国增光的最伟大人物所建立的纪念碑。 ----《大国崛起之工业先声》
28、There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
29、Each player must accept the cards life deals him.
But once they are in hand, he alone must decide
how to play the cards in order to win the game.
30、The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.