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/voʊɫˈtɛɹ/
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NOUN
- French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)
How To Use Voltaire In A Sentence
- The distich caused discussion regarding the quantity of "hic", but the pope defended the prosody of Voltaire who confirmed his opinion by a quotation from Virgil which he said ought to be the epitaph of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
- And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
- I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. Voltaire
- French literary patron noted for her correspondence with Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Horace Walpole.
- Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire
- I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. Voltaire
- Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
- This combination of physical and mental conditions so amazingly favorable to the spread of the Voltairean ideas was a circumstance independent of the state of the surrounding atmosphere, and was what in the phraseology of prescientific times might well have been called providential. Voltaire