Voltaires

The opposite - your Kants, Hegels, Voltaires and Nietzsches, those who argue the perfectability of Man, the fools - that is the road to darkness and chaos and that's where we're now headed, inch by inch.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

The opposite - your Kants, Hegels, Voltaires and Nietzsches, those who argue the perfectability of Man, the fools - that is the road to darkness and chaos and that's where we're now headed, inch by inch.

[reason and enlightenment] the greatest joke perpetrated on man 2009

Drawing the curtains to let the sun's warmth fill the room, you remain hopeful, but know that as the morning news will announce yet another bailout package, you will look elsewhere for telltales of contemporary Voltaires in our midst.

ECONOMISTS, OUR NEW PHILOSOPHER KINGS? 2008

Oh, it is quite another matter than with the Pushkins, Gogols, Molieres, Voltaires, with all these figures who came to speak their new word!

Dostoevsky and the AWP | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2006

So long as histories are written of separate individuals, whether Caesars, Alexanders, Luthers, or Voltaires, and not the histories of all, absolutely all those who take part in an event, it is quite impossible to describe the movement of humanity without the conception of a force compelling men to direct their activity toward a certain end.

War and Peace 2003

What has happened to the Voltaires who once exposed bogus miracles, and the H.L. Menckens who blew shrill whistles on pious humbuggery?

The Market as God 1999

He loved everything about French civilization, and he particularly was taken with the French Felizoffs: the Voltaires and Condorrets and

America Afire 2001

What has happened to the Voltaires who once exposed bogus miracles, and the H.L. Menckens who blew shrill whistles on pious humbuggery?

The Market as God 1999

Ye Shaftesburys, Bolingbrokes, Voltaires, and must I add the name of

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

Eventually the Subaltern picked out a volume by Ségur, not because he wanted to read about war, but because he feared that the Voltaires, the

"Contemptible", by "Casualty"