Voltaire
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#Voltaire
Voltaire · 1694–1778
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“He built no philosophical system. Instead he invented a job — the public intellectual — by taking real miscarriages of justice and hammering them with evidence, publicity, and wit until the verdicts broke.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Fanaticism — belief so certain it will torture for God — is the great enemy of the human race, and the cure is toleration, reason, and relentless, well-aimed laughter.”
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