62 Quotes About Voltaire
- Author Voltaire
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Candide: "Çok acımasızsınız" dedi. Martin: "Hayatın ne olduğunu biliyorum da ondan" diye yanıtladı.
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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Earthquakes, I point out, have always made men eager to placate the gods. After the great Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755—that catastrophe which Voltaire saw as an irrefutable argument for the tragic view of life and against Leibnizian optimism—the locals decided on a propitiatory auto-da-fé.
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- Author Madeleine L'Engle
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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- Author Carl B. Boyer
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Voltaire called the calculus "the Art of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived."See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152
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- Author William Ospina
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Y mientras aguardaba al mounstro concluí que Suiza era el país perfecto para las pesadillas de Füssli y para la chispa incendiaria de Rousseau, para la sonrisa regicida de Voltaire, para los laberintos espaciales de Joyce y para los laberintos mentales de Borges; que en cada rincón de aquellas montañas parece posible la rosa que resurge de la ceniza en las manos de Paracelso.
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- Author Voltaire
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Éternelles et brillantes clartés, soyez-moi toujours propices.
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- Author Voltaire
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La nostra esistenza è un punto, la nostra durata è un istante, il nostro globo un atomo.
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- Author Voltaire
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Facciamo appena in tempo ad istruirci un poco che arriva la morte prima che abbiamo avuto il tempo di farci un po' d'esperienza.
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- Author Petra Hermans
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Opa Jan Goossens hield van tuinieren. Hij kweekte zelf lichtgele rozen, voor in de zomer!
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