In a close-up shot at the start of the mini-series “Voltaire in Love,” a baby François Marie Arouet (also known as French philosopher Voltaire) is pushed out of his mother’s birth canal in a scene of ...
The claim: Voltaire said, 'If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize' Voltaire is one of the many historical figures that is often misattributed. A May 20 ...
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This is an illustration from the preface of *Principles of Newtonian Philosophy*, co-authored in 1738 by French philosopher ...
The French philosopher Voltaire said “Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” There are those, of course, who believe the ...
French philosopher Voltaire said, “Poetry is the music of the soul, and above all, of great and feeling souls.” But that was in the Eighteenth Century. Today poetry is about as popular among the ...
A quote shared by Rep. Thomas Massie on Sunday was the subject of a USA Today fact-check last year. Massie attributed the quote to Voltaire, but experts trace it back to Kevin Alfred Strom. Strom, an ...