Voltaire: “Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities”

November 14th, 2015

Voltaire: “Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities”

Voltaire, the clearest of Enlightenment thinkers wrote those words in his 1765 essay, “Questions sur les miracles.” And they resonate as much now, 250 years later, as they did then.

Dan Colman