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- Mar 2025
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www.cs.tufts.edu www.cs.tufts.edu
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if objects did not exist, we would need to (re)invent them
Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer
—Voltaire, Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs
There's an interesting variation by the chess master Roberto G. Grau:
Si no existiera el error, habría que inventarlo
He also quotes Savielly Tartakower's aphorism:
Erro, ergo sum
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- Dec 2024
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the Café Procope
for - trivia / history - Paris Cafes - Cafe Procope - Enlightenment - French Revolution - Rosseau, Diderot and Voltaire met and shared ideas here with the public
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- Jul 2023
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Some writers have made an important contribution to theGreat Conversation, but in a way that makes it impossible toinclude it in a set like this. These are writers, of whom Leib-nitz, Voltaire, and Balzac are notable examples, whose con-tribution lies in the total volume of their work, rather thanin a few great works, and whose total volume is too largeto be included or whose single works do not come up to thestandard of the other books in this set.
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- Aug 2022
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chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com
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- Apr 2022
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en.wikiquote.org en.wikiquote.org
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Il est encore plus facile de juger de l'esprit d'un homme par ses questions que par ses réponses. (It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers) — Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Lévis (1764-1830), Maximes et réflexions sur différents sujets de morale et de politique (Paris, 1808): Maxim xviii
Apparently this is often misattributed to Voltaire
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- Jan 2022
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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- Nov 2013
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igor.gold.ac.uk igor.gold.ac.uk
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wow nice picture
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wow who made this awesome photoshop?
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