21. Voltaire FrançoisMarie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778). Biographical Information. Main WorksFeatured Works Candide Contexts. Selected Quotations 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

22. Quotation : Quotes Of Voltaire, Author Of The Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, (Voltaire / 16941778 / Philosophical Dictionary, 1764) Nothing can be morecontrary to religion (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Letter to Frederick the Great) http://atheisme.free.fr/Quotes/Voltaire.htm

Welcome Atheism Quotations by authors > Voltaire Quotes François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire French philosopher "Crush the Infamy (The Voltaire's motto) Quotations of Voltaire "When one speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics." (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Candide, 1759) "There are no sects in geometry." (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Philosophical Dictionary, 1764) "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Philosophical Dictionary, 1764) "The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning." (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Philosophical Dictionary, 1764) "Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind." (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Philosophical Dictionary, 1764) "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Letter to M. Damilaville / May 16, 1767)

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Biographies Voltaire > Dictionnaire philosophique Citations : Dictionnaire philosophique (1764) Voltaire (1694-1778) "Ce sont d'ordinaire les fripons qui conduisent les fanatiques, et qui mettent le poignard entre leurs mains ; ils ressemblent à ce Vieux de la Montagne qui faisait, dit-on, goûter les joies du paradis à des imbéciles, et qui leur promettait une éternité de ces plaisirs dont il leur avait donné un avant-goût, à condition qu'ils iraient assassiner tous ceux qu'il leur nommerait." (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Dictionnaire philosophique) "Toute secte, en quelque genre que ce puisse être, est le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur. Scotistes, thomistes, réaux, nominaux, papistes, calvinistes, molinistes, jansénistes ne sont que des noms de guerre. Il n'y a point de secte en géométrie ; on ne dit point un euclidien, un archimédien. Quand la vérité est évidente, il est impossible qu'il s'élève des partis et des factions. Jamais on n'a disputé s'il fait jour à midi." (Voltaire / 1694-1778 / Dictionnaire philosophique) "Redisons tous les jours à tous les hommes : "la morale est une, elle vient de Dieu ; les dogmes sont différents, ils viennent de nous"."

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25. Voltaire (1694-1778) Following his return to France, in 1728 or 1729, Voltaire continued to write In 1750, Voltaire accepted an invitation from Frederick II of Prussia to go http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Voltaire/Volt

Voltaire born Nov. 21, 1694, Paris, France ied May 30, 1778, Paris One of the greatest 18th-century European authors, remembered as a crusader against tyranny and bigotry and noted for his wit, satire, and vigorous critical capacity. Born of middle-class parents and educated by the Jesuits at the college of Louis-le-Grand in Paris, Voltaire studied law for a time but abandoned it to become a writer. He made his name with classical tragedies and continued to write for the theatre all his life. Voltaire's epic poem La Henriade was well-received, but his lampoons of the Regency and his liberal religious opinions caused offense. He was imprisoned in the Bastille for nearly a year (1717), and in 1726 he was driven into exile in England, where his philosophical interests deepened. In 1750, Voltaire accepted an invitation from Frederick II (1752), Zadig (1747), and Candide Sources Encylopedia Britannica 2002, Expanded Edition DVD Web Pages Voltaire Society of America Voltaire Foundation (Oxford)

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27. Voltaire (1694-1778) French Writer - Pseudonym For Francois Marie Arouet (16941778) French writer. Pseudonym for Francois Marie Arouet. Voltaire wrotepoetry, drama, romance, history, philosophy, and science. http://classiclit.about.com/od/voltaire/

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28. Voltaire FRANCOISMARIE AROUET DE Voltaire (1694-1778). Voltaire, a great French literaryfigure, 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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33. QuotationReference.com: Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 16941778, Epître à l Auteur du Livre des TroisImposteurs. cxi.) Il faut cultiver notre jardin. http://www.quotationreference.com/quotefinder.php?byax=1&strt=1&subj=Francois Ma

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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.

37. Creative Quotations From Voltaire (1694-1778) Voltaire in quotations to inspire creative thinking. http://www.creativequotations.com/one/194.htm

Home Search Indexes E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . Voltaire 1694-1778) born on Nov 21 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 Fishing For Creativity Creative Perfumes 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 the above Quotations: F: From an Internet collection of quotations. R: "In "Instant Quotation Dictionary," by Donald O. Bolander, 1979." A: From an Internet collection of quotations.

38. History Of Vegetarianism - Voltaire (1694-1778) A large collection of articles about the development of vegetarianism around theworld for thousands of years. http://www.ivu.org/history/renaissance/voltaire.html

International Vegetarian Union History of Vegetarianism Europe: The Middle Ages to the 18th Century Voltaire Voltaire Collins English Dictionary direct link: amazon.co.uk (Note: we have no evidence that Voltaire actually practised vegetarianism, though his writings were clearly sympathetic to the idea) Extract from The Extended Circle by Jon Wynne-Tyson: Direct link: amazon.co.uk How pitiful, and what poverty of mind, to have said that the animals are machines deprived of understanding and feeling . . . Judge (in the same way as you would judge your own) the behaviour of a dog who has lost his master, who has searched for him in the road barking miserably, who has come back to the house restless and anxious, who has run upstairs and down, from room to room, and who has found the beloved master at last in his study, and then shown his joy by barks, bounds and caresses. There are some barbarians who will take this dog, that so greatly excels man in capacity for friendship, who will nail him to a table, and dissect him alive, in order to show you his veins and nerves. And what you then discover in him are all the same organs of sensation that you have in yourself . Answer me, mechanist, has Nature arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal

39. Voltaire (1694-1778) Voltaire (16941778). Great French poet, philosopher, and dramatist who was anoutspoken critic of political and religious intolerance. http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/Voltaire.html

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