Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: Or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Or, Optimism (1947). The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this existence, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".
Candide
Voltaire
audiobookbook
Sallimus
Voltaire
book
Candide
Voltaire
book
3500 Final Quotes
Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Beaumarchais, Napoleon Bonaparte, Buddha, Winston Churchill, Cicero, Confucius, Nicolas de Chamfort, Charles de Gaulle, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Denis Diderot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anne Frank, Mahatma Gandhi, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Luther King, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Abraham Lincoln, Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Marcel Proust, Arthur Schopenhauer, William Shakespeare, Socrates, Baruch Spinoza, Henry David Thoreau, Leonardo da Vinci, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, Lao Zi
audiobook
600 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 18th Century
Beaumarchais, Nicolas de Chamfort, Denis Diderot, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire
audiobook
3500 citations ultimes
Marc Aurèle, Jane Austen, Beaumarchais, Napoléon Bonaparte, – Bouddha, Winston Churchill, – Cicéron, Confucius, Nicolas de Chamfort, Charles de Gaulle, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Léonard De Vinci, Denis Diderot, Fiodor Dostoïevski, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anne Frank, Mahatma Gandhi, Emmanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Luther King, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Abraham Lincoln, Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Platon, Marcel Proust, Arthur Schopenhauer, William Shakespeare, – Socrate, Baruch Spinoza, Henry David Thoreau, Lao Tseu, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde
audiobook
400 citations de la philosophie des Lumières
Denis Diderot, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire
audiobook
600 citations des grands écrivains français du XVIIIe siècle
Beaumarchais, Nicolas de Chamfort, Denis Diderot, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire
audiobook
400 citations des grands philosophes du 17ème siècle
Montesquieu, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire
audiobook
400 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 17th Century
Montesquieu, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire
audiobook
600 citations de la philosophie française
Gaston Bachelard, Denis Diderot, Montesquieu, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire
audiobook
900 Quotations from Modern Philosophy
Francis Bacon, Michel de Montaigne, Immanuel Kant, Nicolas Machiavel, Montesquieu, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire
audiobook