Crossword-Solution: VOLTAIRE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VOLTAIRE | anagram | RELATIVO, VIOLATER |
We have 22 clues for the answer “VOLTAIRE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| François Marie Arouet | 1 answer |
| pen name of the French writer François-Marie Arouet | 1 answer |
| aka Francois Marie Arouet | 1 answer |
| To whom the quote is attributed | 1 answer |
| Satirist F. M. Arouet. | 1 answer |
| Philosopher who wrote "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" | 1 answer |
| He wrote "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" | 1 answer |
| French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment | 1 answer |
| French satirist | 1 answer |
| François-Marie Arouet, by another nom | 1 answer |
| François-Marie Arouet | 1 answer |
| Cunégonde's creator | 1 answer |
| Contemporary of Rousseau. | 1 answer |
| CANDIDE, author of | 1 answer |
| Author of "Candide" | 1 answer |
| 'Candide' novelist | 1 answer |
| "Zaire" dramatist | 1 answer |
| "Innkeeper of Europe" | 1 answer |
| "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" writer | 1 answer |
| "Candide" author | 1 answer |
| French scientist | 2 answers |
| French writer | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VOLTAIRE (5)
Those of my readers who have been intimate with painters, actors, or musicians, will recall with amusement how lightly the performances of an associate are condemned by the brotherhood as falling short of the high standard which according to these wiseacres, “Art” exacts, and how sure each speaker is of understanding just where a brother carries his “mote.” Voltaire once avoided giving a definition of the beautiful by saying, “Ask a toad what his ideas of beauty are.
When Voltaire overthrew Christianity, he repeatedly avowed that he had no spite against religion, but only against its abuses.] [Footnote 69: The property fever is at its height among writers and artists, and it is curious to see the complacency with which our legislators and men of letters cherish this devouring passion.
The statement that ninety-six in a hundred doing such business surely break down is perhaps the sweetest fact that statistics have revealed.” The wish was probably father to the figures; but there is something enlivening in a hatred of so genuine a brand, hot as Corsican revenge, and sneering like Voltaire.
Since the days of Hume and Voltaire and Gibbon the fight has slowly but steadily rolled in favour of the attack.
CHAPTER XLII Francis Ardry--That won't do, sir--Observe my gestures--I think you improve--Better than politics--Delightful young Frenchwoman--A burning shame--Magnificent impudence--Paunch--Voltaire--Lump of sugar.
Quotes with VOLTAIRE (3)
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
I believe in the Supreme Being, in a Creator, whatever he may be. I care little who has placed us here below to fulfil our duties as citizens and fathers of families; but I don't need to go to church to kiss silver plates, and fatten, out of my pocket, a lot of good-for-nothings who live better than we do. For one can know him as well in a wood, in a field, or even contemplating the eternal vault like the ancients. My God! mine is the God of Socrates, of Franklin, of Voltaire…
La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen siendo. Claro, lo tienen que compartir con los grandes magnates de la tierra, esos que controlan el petroleo, las drogas, la tecnologia y por supuesto la television y la radio. La Iglesia domina los miedos y la promesa de la salvacion; las grandes empresas tambien manipulan los miedos y los paliativos para estos: la satisfaccion de las necesidades basicas - y las no tan basicas que…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).