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"Those that can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities." – Voltaire
#quotes #philosophy #voltaire #maga #fascism #authoritarianism
[blogue / rappel] Pangloss, Zelensky et Tr. • https://oreilletendue.com/2025/04/18/curiosites-voltairiennes-et-economiques/ • #voltaire #lumières #oreilletendue
[blogue / rappel] Cultiver son jardin avec Julia Deck • https://oreilletendue.com/2025/04/17/curiosites-voltairiennes-et-jardinieres/ • #voltaire #lumières #oreilletendue
Des penseurs des Lumières tels que Voltaire et Rousseau ont redéfini l’identité juive par l’assimilation des Juifs au « peuple hébreu ». Au même moment, #Voltaire faisait du Prophète de l’Islam un emblème du fanatisme et de la barbarie https://www.theatre-classique.fr/pages/pdf/VOLTAIRE_FANATISME.pdf
[blogue / rappel] Le (non-) sommeil de #Voltaire • https://oreilletendue.com/2025/04/15/curiosites-voltairiennes-et-eveillees/ • #lumières #simenon #oreilletendue
@SherBeareth considering his views on violence, using a photo featuring an unsheathed sword is hilariously ironic.
Here's a bonus quote that's perhaps even more apposite:
“It is dangerous to be right when those in power are wrong.”
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
—Voltaire
[blogue / rappel] Avoir #Voltaire dans la peau. Littéralement. • https://oreilletendue.com/2025/04/10/curiosites-voltairiennes-et-tatouees/ • #lumières #oreilletendue
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire
@lavaeolus Das wusste schon #Voltaire.
#Candide
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
[Le doute n’est pas une état bien agréable, mais l’assurance est un état ridicule.]
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1770-11-28) to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/voltaire/4016/
@felis_catus_domesticus @Sibshops @idoubtit @QasimRashid
A slaver and tyrant ball-sucking clown.
Rousseau may have been more serious about these things.
(*autotranslate)
ARTE Concert De longs cheveux aux pouvoirs magiques, c’est l’histoire d’un Opéra maudit : Samson – ARTE Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2aallxhzno
#youtube_arteconcert #ARTE #ARTE_Concert #Musique #Music #live #web #scène #gig #concert #samson #opéra #rameau #voltaire #theatre #claus_guth #raphael_pichon #classique #baroque #Théâtre_de_l_Archevêché #Festival_d_Aix_en_Provence #musicale #théâtrale #compositeur_français #compositeur #mezzo_soprano #soprano #Dalila #Partition
Voltaire on smallpox inoculation from Lettres Philosophiques, translated from French to English.
In short, Lady Wortley Montague brought the idea of #smallpox inoculation to England after witnessing the Ottomans performing this procedure. The English tested this inoculation on prisoners before gaining royal approval. The Queen’s support led to its widespread adoption, which #Voltaire observed the practice preventing deaths and disfigurement. France resisted due to religious and medical opposition, though the Chinese had used a similar technique for centuries.
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.asp#Letter%20XI
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.asp#Letter%20XI
Your favorite #Voltaire books please. Short formats preferred.
Commonsense is not so common. ~ #Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique #quotes #commonsense
#Voltaire #trumpism #MAGA #trump #felon #cruel
Voltaire writes about trumpism
"We understand by trumpism at present a religious madness, gloomy and cruel. It is a malady of the mind, which is taken in the same way as small pox. We seldom get heated when reading in solitude, for our minds are then tranquil and sedate. But when an ardent man of strong imagination addresses himself to weak imaginations, his eyes dart fire and that fire rapidly spreads, his tones and gestures absolutely convulse the nerves of his auditors and they rush to the fight"
from the Philisophical Dictionary 1764
