Curiosité voltairienne (et gazonneuse) | L’Oreille tendue | 6 octobre 2025

Blogue de Benoît Melançon, professeur émérite, Université de Montréal • Langue et culture, au Québec et ailleurs

L’Oreille tendue

(8/8)
The paradox of tolerance isn’t a contradiction.
It’s a warning.
Love without discernment invites its own destruction.
So we must ask:

How do we preserve open society—without letting it be devoured by those who would close it?

#Philosophy #ParadoxOfTolerance #Popper #FreeSpeech #Democracy #PoliticalPhilosophy #Voltaire #Ethics #Thread #MastoVerse #BlindFaithAdjacent

👨🏻‍💻🤴💕👅⁉️ Die mehr als vierzig Jahre (bis zu Voltaires Tod 1778) währende Hassliebe zwischen Friedrich II und seinem Lieblingsautor #Voltaire wäre einen eigenen Roman wert. Weil Voltaire in #SiebenJahre nur erwähnt wird und nicht auftaucht, präsentiere ich zwei typische Briefstellen. (Übersetzung: Hans Pleschinski)

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”
~ Voltaire

#Quotes #Voltaire

Curiosités voltairiennes (et onomastiques) | L’Oreille tendue | 22 septembre 2025

Blogue de Benoît Melançon, professeur émérite, Université de Montréal • Langue et culture, au Québec et ailleurs

L’Oreille tendue

"The alphabet was the origin of all man’s knowledge, and of all his foolishness."

#Voltaire #Quote

#TalDiaComoHoy, 21/9/1874 nacía #Holst 🌞🌎 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2024/09/los-planetas-y-gustav-holst.html Te propongo un paseo por su obra más conocida, #LosPlanetas. Nos acompañan en el viaje textos de #Voltaire y #CarlSagan
Los planetas y Gustav #Holst 💫🌞🌎 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2024/09/los-planetas-y-gustav-holst.html Aprovechando que se cumplen años del nacimiento el 21/9/1874 de Holst, te propongo un paseo por su obra más conocida, #LosPlanetas. Nos acompañan en el viaje textos de #Voltaire y #CarlSagan