Talk:Voltaire

Voltaire should be the patron saint of RW.  Rational Ed faith 13:15, 14 April 2008 (EDT)
 * I think his photo should certainly be one we randomly include on the main page. human  13:25, 14 April 2008 (EDT)

Clockmaker?
Could have ed it. But I've been all over the web & can find nothing to back it up. Beyond saying that he believed in gOD through "reason" rather than "faith". 11:32, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I found "The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker." as a quote, but no actual source for it. -- 11:38, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Fair enough! Watches were the leading edge in his time, I suppose. 11:46, 17 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Among others: "The atheists never replied to the difficulty that a clock proves a clock-maker." Letter to the Marquis de Villevielle, 26 August 1768 TomS TDotO (talk) 11:50, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Deathbed quote
Having trouble finding if he actually said this, but if so it would be an awesome addition to his quotes. Apparently on his deathbed when asked by a priest to swear off the devil he replied with "Now now, young man. This is not the time to be making enemies" Has anyone been able to find any attribution for this? I have looked on and off for a while with few results, usually end up going in a huge internet circle. EWildman (talk) 01:43, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Voltaire on the Gospels
He stated that they are so full of contradictions between each other the authors were making it up. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 17:51, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Questionable link
So I was reading the external links, and found one that seems really dodgy. Footnote 3 leads to a citation of an article called "Our Race is Our Nation: The Universality of Anti-Semitism". With a name like that, and the fact that it claims such things as that Hitler's misdeeds were exaggerated, and the general tone of the article being drastically different from other reviews of historical antisemitism (it seems to imply that the Jews brought it on themselves) I have some reason to believe it's in fact a Neo-Nazi website. Can somebody else confirm or deny this? I don't want the authorities thinking I'm a Nazi and investigating me because I clicked on one of our links. --User:Brendan Rizzo, 2014-03-05, 12:02 UCT

Top Quote removed
The former Top Quote of this page was one that Voltaire himself did not say. Therefor I removed it. See for instance http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/www_vf/about_voltaire/didnt_say.pdf.


 * Restored. It's obvious humour and the cite notes this - David Gerard (talk) 10:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

The fuck was that word again?
I'm getting frustrated because I can't remember it. It's when a woman thinks of something but a male, either through his own doing or society's, takes credit for it. Goddamit what the fuck was it? It was like bro-theft or something? Cultural broprobiation? I honestly have it on the tip of my tongue. Parogar (talk) 05:55, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

"Volty"
Really?--Кřěĵ (ṫåɬк) 20:28, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Ya really.--Kugelschreiber (talk) (mail) (block) 21:09, 9 April 2016 (UTC) 21:09, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Voltaire's Anti-semitism is debatable.
"Bertram Schwarzbach's far more detailed studies of Voltaire's dealings with Jewish people throughout his life concluded that he was anti-biblical, not anti-semitic. His remarks on the Jews and their "superstitions" were essentially no different from his remarks on Christians." --WP article on V. Ariel31459 (talk) 18:02, 22 May 2019 (UTC)