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Biography - Voltaire:

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Born: 1694 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
Voltaire - Les cabales


Note 

Note



Other translation: I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.


Quote source: Les cabales

Wikisource - Voltaire - Œuvres complètes (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Das Universum bringt mich in Verwirrung; ich kann nicht verstehen, wie ein solches Uhrwerk bestehen kann ohne Uhrmacher.
Voltaire - Les cabales

French
L'univers m'embarrasse, et je ne puis songer
Que cette horloge existe et n'ait pas d'horloger.
Voltaire - Les cabales



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Quotes for: universe


Quotes

Quotes about the Universe:


Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei - The Assayer / 





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière / 





You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
Alan Watts / 





Everything mystical is personal — accordingly it is an elementary variation of the universe.
Novalis - Fragments / 





All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.
Claude Monet / 





Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything
Gérard de Nerval / 






All about the Universe...




Quotes for: existence


Quotes

Quotes about existence:


To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution / 





Existence precedes essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 





It is valid to conclude from actuality to possibility, but not from possibility to actuality.
 / 





My happiness should justify existence itself!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
Charles Baudelaire / 





Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing less than his life.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 






All about existence...




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Voltaire also said...


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet / 





Love truth, but pardon error.
Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom / 





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary / 





What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary / 





The best is the enemy of good.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary / 





Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.
Voltaire - Épîtres / 







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