François-Marie Arouet

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:Writer
gptkb:historians
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:French_Revolution
gptkb:Enlightenment
Philosophes
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Royal_Society_of_London
gptkb:French_Academy
gptkbp:birth_date 1694-11-21
gptkbp:birth_place gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:child gptkb:Marie_Louise_Arouet
gptkb:Arouet_de_Voltaire
gptkb:Charles_Arouet
gptkb:François_Arouet
gptkb:Marie-Louise_Arouet
gptkbp:death_date 1778-05-30
gptkbp:death_place gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:famous_for gptkb:satire
critique of organized religion
advocacy of civil liberties
gptkbp:famous_quote " All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."
" Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
" The perfect is the enemy of the good."
" I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
" It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label François-Marie Arouet
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:human_rights
gptkb:Thomas_Jefferson
gptkb:Friedrich_Nietzsche
gptkb:Karl_Marx
Western literature
freedom of speech
Voltaire's philosophy
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Rene_Descartes
gptkb:John_Locke
gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkbp:known_as gptkb:Voltaire
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:satire
philosophical writings
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
English
gptkbp:name gptkb:Voltaire
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:Philosophical_Dictionary
gptkb:Candide
gptkb:Zadig
Philosophical Letters
Letters on England
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:playwright
gptkb:drama
gptkb:poet
gptkb:historians
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Paris
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Paris
gptkbp:religion Deism
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Émilie_du_Châtelet
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:The_Marriage_of_Figaro
gptkb:The_Age_of_Louis_XIV
gptkb:The_Maid_of_Orleans
gptkb:Dictionnaire_philosophique
gptkb:The_Devil_in_the_Belfry
gptkb:The_Orphan_of_China
gptkb:The_Philosophical_Dictionary
gptkb:Treatise_on_Tolerance
Letters on England
The Alzire.
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Voltaire
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4