41. Voltaire FrançoisMarie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778). Biographical Information. http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/voltaire/

Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta's World Literature Website HOME INDEX CONTACT INFO HOME ... Links Biographical Information French philosopher and writer; critic of the Church and aristocrats; enemy of tyranny, bigotry, religious intolerance, war, and injustice; interested in literature, history, philosophy, and science son of a minor treasury official in Paris; middle-class background decided against the study of law and, contrary to his father's wishes, chose literature while in prison, he wrote his first play, Oedipus (Oedipe 1718, adopted the pen-name Voltaire preference for Deism (a rational approach to religion rejecting formal cults and rituals, superstitions, and supernaturalism, and believing instead that the order of nature manifests the existence of God) became rich by 1726 through successful financial speculations in the Company of the Indies (Compagnie des Indes) 1726, offended a powerful aristocrat (the Chevalier de Rohan), exiled in England 1726-1728

42. [Francois Marie Arouet] Voltaire (1694-1778) Quotes Voltaire Quotes. I may not agree with what you say, but I will defendto the death your right to say it. I may disagree with what http://www.phnet.fi/public/mamaa1/voltaire.htm

Voltaire Quotes I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. The best way to become boring is to say everything. The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything. Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. All history is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties. England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short on: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

43. Voltaire FRANCOISMARIE AROUET DE Voltaire (1694-1778). Voltaire, a great Frenchliterary figure, was a popularizer of the science of Newton. http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/voltaire.html

FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778) Voltaire, a great French literary figure, was a popularizer of the science of Newton. He is most famous for his novel Candide in which he makes fun of Leibniz who held that this is the best of all possible worlds. Voltaire Time Line 1694 November 21, born in Paris to a wealthy family. As a child he is influenced by his mother's friends in the belles-letters and deism. Shows early ability to write verse. 1704 Sent to the College Louis-le-Grand, a Jesuit institution, where, in addition to a sound classical education, he was exposed to stage-plays in both Latin and French which may account for the interest he had in the stage throughout his life. 1711 He returns home and, desiring to devote himself to literature, struggles against his father's wish that he studies law. He gives in briefly but soon abandons study of law altogether. 1713 After falling in with a loose crowd, his father sends him to Holland. Upon his return to Paris he works briefly in a lawyer's office. 1714 His satirical poems get him in trouble and his father sends him away once more, this time to the marquis de Saint-Ange who lives in the country.

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Bienvenue sur la page de Voltaire Vous êtes le ème visiteur de cette page depuis le 25/08/2001 Dernière mise à jour : 13 février 2004. Biographie Candide L'ingénu Voltaire (1694-1778) Homme de lettres et philosophe français, auteur notamment d'essais et de contes philosophiques qui témoignent de son souci de vérité, de justice et de tolérance. François Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire, fut élevé chez les jésuites du collège Louis-le-Grand, qui influencèrent profondément son esprit, en lui apportant une solide formation de rhétorique et en lui donnant le goût de la discussion et du théâtre. Parallèlement, il fut introduit dans les milieux mondains par son parrain, l'abbé de Châteauneuf, qui le présenta même à la célèbre courtisane Ninon de Lenclos. Zadig ou la Destinée (1748), qui pose le problème du bonheur et du destin, L’Ingénu , puis Micromégas (1752), qui traite de la relativité des connaissances, sont deux de ses contes philosophiques , et enfin Candide . C'est par ces récits merveilleux que le public du XXe siècle connaît et admire Voltaire ; lui-même pourtant ne les considérait que comme une partie mineure de son œuvre. La réputation du philosophe était alors immense et internationale. Des écrivains, des philosophes, des savants venaient lui rendre visite à Ferney, ou entretenaient une importante correspondance avec lui. Pourtant, son retour à Paris en 1778, l'année de sa mort, ne lui permit pas d'être reçu à Versailles.

45. Section 5: Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters On Newton  /Shaping Of The Modern Worl Section 5 Reading 1 Voltaire (16941778) Letters on Newton, fromthe Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-05r01.htm

Section 5 Reading 1 Contents Readings Caucus Search ... Movies Brooklyn College Core Curriculum: The Shaping of the Modern World Section 5 Reading Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on Newton, from the Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques , c. 1778 It is almost impossible to overstate the influence of Sir Isaac Newton. Newton, however, write his major works in Latin. His ideas were popularised by later writer, among whom Voltaire was prominent. Here Voltaire compares the great French thinker, Descartes, with Newton. Letter XIV : On Descartes And Sir Isaac Newton A Frenchman who arrives in London, will find philosophy, like everything else, very much changed there. He had left the world a plenum, and he now finds it a vacuum. At Paris the universe is seen composed of vortices of subtile matter; but nothing like it is seen in London. In France, it is the pressure of the moon that causes the tides; but in England it is the sea that gravitates towards the moon; so that when you think that the moon should make it flood with us, those gentlemen fancy it should be ebb, which very unluckily cannot be proved. For to be able to do this, it is necessary the moon and the tides should have been inquired into at the very instant of the creation. You will observe farther, that the sun, which in France is said to have nothing to do in the affair, comes in here for very near a quarter of its assistance. According to your Cartesians, everything is performed by an impulsion, of which we have very little notion; and according to Sir Isaac Newton, it is by an attraction, the cause of which is as much unknown to us. At Paris you imagine that the earth is shaped like a melon, or of an oblique figure; at London it has an oblate one. A Cartesian declares that light exists in the air; but a Newtonian asserts that it comes from the sun in six minutes and a half. The several operations of your chemistry are performed by acids, alkalies and subtile matter; but attraction prevails even in chemistry among the English.

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Section 5 Reading 7 Contents Readings Caucus Search ... Movies Brooklyn College Core Curriculum: The Shaping of the Modern World Section 5 Reading Voltaire (1694-1778): On Religion, from the Philosophical Dictionary I MEDITATED last night; I was absorbed in the contemplation of nature; I admired the immensity, the course, the harmony of these infinite globes which the vulgar do not know how to admire. I was plunged in these ideas when one of those genii who fill the intermundane spaces came down to me. I recognized this same aerial creature who had appeared to me on another occasion to teach me how different God's judgments were from our own, and how a good action is preferable to a controversy. He transported me into a desert all covered with piled up bones; and between these heaps of dead men there were walks of ever-green trees, and at the end of each walk a tall man of august mien, who regarded these sad remains with pity. " Alas! my archangel," said I, " where have you brought me? " " To desolation," he answered.

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CQHome Search CQ CQ Indexes CQ E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . Voltaire 1694-1778) born on Nov 3 French philosopher, poet, novelist, playwright. He attacked tyranny, bigotry and religious fanaticism while working toward political reform; wrote "Candide," 1759. Search millions of documents for Voltaire Creative Hats Tshirts African Cichlids The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Common Sense is not so common. I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Published Sources for Quotations Above: F: From an Internet collection of quotations. R: In "Instant Quotation Dictionary," by Donald O. Bolander, 1979. A: From an Internet collection of quotations. N: In "Speakers Sourcebook I," by Eleanor Doan, 1960. K: Attributed.

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La Scuola il centro news il giornale ... e-mail Francoise-Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) Voltaire fu il simbolo dell'illuminismo francese. Nato a Parigi, fu arrestato nei primi anni della sua carriera e portato alla Bastiglia dopo essere stato denunciato da un gruppo di nobili infastiditi dalle attenzioni del filosofo, instancabile delatore delle loro prepotenze. Successivamente venne bastonato dai servi del barone di Rohan, dopo il rifiuto di battersi a duello con il nobile, lui, semplice borghese. Nel 1724 venne costretto all'esilio a Londra, dove entrò in contatto con gli empiristi (in particolare con Locke) e rimane folgorato dal lavoro di Newton, le cui teorie non si stancò mai di divulgare. Nel 1746 venne richiamato in patria e completamente riabilitato, fu ricevuto solennemente dall'Accadèmie e nominato storiografo ufficiale di Francia. Alla sua morte Voltaire era ormai un'istituzione nazionale. Opere filosofiche principali: Elementi della filosofia di Newton Micromega Candido o l'ottimismo Trattato sulla tolleranza Dizionario filosofico Questioni sull'Enciclopedia Nel Candido , Voltaire immagina un giovane ingenuo e sprovveduto (Candido appunto), passare per un'infinita serie di disgrazie senza comunque perdere il suo inguaribile ottimismo, il quale gli proviene dall'insegnamento di Pangloss (una satira di Leibniz), lo scienziato di corte che afferma che il mondo è il migliore dei mondi possibili e che tutto ha un suo fine e una sua utilità nel grande gioco dell'esistenza.

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POEMS BY 18TH CENTURY DRAMATISTS: An Account of the Greatest English Poets - by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Azolan - by Voltaire (1694-1778) The Castle on the Mountain - by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) The Dance of the Dead - by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) An Elegy on a Lap-dog - by John Gay (1685-1732) The Fisherman - by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) From Love to Friendship - by Voltaire (1694-1778) The Glove - by Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) Had I a Heart for Falsehood Framed - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) He that Tastes Woman - by John Gay (1685-1732) Hymn - by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) If a Daughter You Have - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) If Lawyer's Hand is Fee'd - by John Gay (1685-1732) If the Heart of a Man - by John Gay (1685-1732) In Camp Before Philippsburg, July 3, 1734

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Download PDF Download Word Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) Voltaire ist der bedeutendste Vertreter u. der Führer der europ. Aufklärung. Seine Werke umfassen das gesamte Ideengut der Epoche. Voltaire verteidigte Toleranz, Menschenrechte u. -würde u. Vernunft. Er wandte sich gegen die Rousseausche Verherrlichung des Naturzustands. Hinter der Gesetzmäßigkeit der Natur erkannte er Gott als einen vernünftigen Urheber; Voltaire betonte besonders die praktische Bedeutung des Gottesglaubens. Religion: Voltaire war ein gottgläubiger Mensch, er nannte sich selbst ‘Theist’. Jedoch führte er in den Jahren 1761-1765 einen äußerst erbitterten Kampf gegen die Kirchen aller Konfessionen. ”Ecrasez l’Infâme!” – Zerschlagt die Infamie! Dies wurde sein Schlachtruf. Das Philosophenlexikon sagt (hingegen): ”Als Freidenker und Deist kritisierte er jegliche institutionelle Religion.” Seine philosophischen Hauptwerke sind "Traité de métaphysique" 1734; "Le Mondain" 1736; "Sur l'homme" 1738;

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