In 1916, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber, and Hans Richter, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire expressing their disgust with the war and the interests that inspired it.

Some sources state that Dada coalesced on October 6 at the Cabaret Voltaire.

Gathering on Sanssouci in the Marble Hall, with Voltaire, Casanova, d ' Argens, La Mettrie, James Francis Edward Keith | James Keith, George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal | George Keith, Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg, Christoph Ludwig von Stille, Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz and Algarotti.

Good history, Voltaire argued, agrees with reason and natural science, and is based on the corroborating evidence.

Many other French philosophes ( intellectuals ) exerted philosophical influence on a continental scale, including Voltaire, Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose essay The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right was a catalyst for governmental and societal reform throughout Europe.

In the early part of the 18th century the movement was dominated by Voltaire and Montesquieu, but the movement grew in momentum as the century moved on.

According to Jacques Barzun: Voltaire, who had felt annoyed by the first essay the Arts and Sciences, was outraged by the second, on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, declaring that Rousseau wanted us to “ walk on all fours ” like animals and behave like savages, believing them creatures of perfection.

Musician Voltaire wrote a song called " Worf's Rap " for his EP Banned on Vulcan.

The appearance of Antoine Galland's first modern translation of the Thousand and One Nights ( or Arabian Nights ) ( from 1704 ; another translation appeared in 1710 – 12 ) would have an enormous influence on the 18th century European short stories of Voltaire, Diderot and others.

French philosopher Voltaire criticised Leibniz's concept of theodicy in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ( Poem on the Lisbon disaster ), suggesting that the massive destruction of innocent lives caused by the Lisbon earthquake demonstrated that God was not providing the " best of all possible worlds ".

* Philipp, W. ' Physicotheology in the Age of Enlightenment: Appearance and History ', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 57 ( 1967 ), 1233-1267.

It was Rousseau's fellow philosophe, Voltaire, objecting to Rousseau's egalitarianism, who charged him with primitivism and accused him of wanting to make people go back and walk on all fours.

In praising her support for smallpox inoculation, Voltaire wrote of her, " I must say that despite all her titles and crowns, this princess was born to encourage the arts and the well-being of mankind ; even on the throne she is a benevolent philosopher ; and she has never lost an opportunity to learn or to manifest her generosity.

Alexander the Great appeared on the French stage in the full costume of Louis XIV of France down to the time of Voltaire ; and in England the contemporaries of Joseph Addison found unremarkable ( in Pope's words )

Cabaret Voltaire have a song called " A Touch of Evil " on their album Red Mecca.

By the early 1760s du Pont's writings on the national economy had drawn the attention of intellectuals such as Voltaire and Turgot.

He went on several further expeditions to Europe, becoming well known in the great Parisian salons, meeting influential figures such as Voltaire, Edward Gibbon, the duc d ' Orléans and the marquis de Lafayette, and becoming the co-owner of a number of racehorses with the duc de Lauzun.

He followed up the " Napoleon on the Bellerophon " with the still finer " Voltaire ".

The subject does not appear happy, for it does not explain itself, but requires a previous knowledge on the part of the spectator of how Voltaire was beaten by the servants of the Chevalier de Rohan-Chabot, and how the duc de Sully failed to avenge his guest.

The " Voltaire " was at the Academy of 1883 ; it was followed, in 1884, by the " Marriage de convenance ", perhaps the most popular of all Orchardson's pictures ; in 1885, by " The Salon of Madame Récamier "; in 1886, by " After ", the sequel to the " Marriage de convenance ", and " A Tender Chord ", one of his most exquisite productions ; in 1887, by " The First Cloud "; in 1888, by " Her Mother's Voice "; and in 1889, by " The Young Duke ", a canvas on which he returned to much the same pictorial scheme as that of the " Voltaire ".

Their first project, the tragédie en musique Samson, was abandoned because an opera on a religious theme by Voltaire — a notorious critic of the Church — was likely to be banned by the authorities.

At the end of 1745, Voltaire and Rameau, who were busy on other works, commissioned Rousseau to turn La Princesse de Navarre into a new opera, with linking recitative called Les fêtes de Ramire.

Other noteworthy intellectuals and religious figures on the Index include Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Hugo Grotius and Saint Faustina Kowalska.

She founded her own salon, at Étiolles, and was joined by many philosophes, among them Voltaire.

Influenced by early electronic and ( post -) industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D. A. F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining elements of electronic body music ( EBM ).

In many ways he emulated his own assessment of Voltaire, as an author against habitual thinking, hypocrisy and the thin veneer of morality.

The spirit of rivalry induced Voltaire to take the subjects of no less than five of Crébillon's tragedies ( Semiramis, Electre, Catilina, Le Triumviral and Ahreeas ), as his own.

Prominent Projekt artists include Sam Rosenthal's own Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Steve Roach, Voltaire, Eric Wollo, Unto Ashes, Weep ( Doc Hammer, co-writer of the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros .) Mira, and Android Lust.

Due to the volatile content of the Dictionnaire, Voltaire chose Grasset over his usual publisher to ensure his own anonymity.

In the letter 25, which was not included with the original twenty-four, Voltaire criticizes certain ideas of Blaise Pascal by taking citations from his Pensées and giving his own opinion on the same subject.

Voltaire published his own expurgated version as Extraits des sentiments de Jean Meslier ( first edition, 1762 ).

Early in his career, Ruiz had used pen names, such as Cándido ( in honor of Voltaire ) and Ahrimán ( the Persian god of destruction ), and in 1904 he discarded his own name and began to use the surname of one of his characters, " Azorín ".

It was a masterful composition although, by his own admission, Smellie borrowed liberally from many authors of his day, such as Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.

They released two singles and an album on their own Spec Records and played concerts during 1978 and 1979 with Cabaret Voltaire, Scritti Politti among others.

According to the theory, agreed by Oshii (), that the futuristic projection of Science Fiction is nothing more than a metaphorous description of the present and current society, just like Montesquieu ( in Persian Letters ) and Voltaire ( in L ' Ingénu ) implicitly describing-criticizing-their own country through the eyes of a foreign character or civilization, this work could be viewed as a warning ( or " Awakening ") to preserve our, current, highly menaced, biosphere and ecosystem before it is too late.

Given Paul's own biting wit, it's not surprising that he so admired Voltaire and Russell.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

The French philosopher Voltaire was also influenced by Confucius, seeing the concept of Confucian rationalism as an alternative to Christian dogma.

In his youth Diderot was originally a follower of Voltaire and his deist Anglomanie, but gradually moved away from this line of thought towards materialism and atheism, a move which was finally realised 1747 in the philosophical debate in the second part of his La Promenade du sceptique ( 1747 ).

This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.

A single issue of the magazine Cabaret Voltaire was the first publication to come out of the movement.

The Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair until it was occupied from January to March, 2002, by a group proclaiming themselves Neo-Dadaists, led by Mark Divo.

The most famous of the French deists was Voltaire, who acquired a taste for Newtonian science, and reinforcement of deistic inclinations, during a two-year visit to England starting in 1726.

David's painting of Brutus was shown during the play Brutus, by the famous Frenchman, Voltaire.

When Voltaire died in 1778, the church denied him a church burial, and his body was interred near a monastery.

He was " one of the first Esprits cavaliers of the age ," a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and music and a friend of most of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheïst Julien Offray de La Mettrie.

Algarotti accompanied Frederick to Bayreuth, Kehl, Strasbourg and Moyland Castle where they met with Voltaire, who was taking baths in Kleve for his health.

Rousseau, who was jealously sparing of his praises, addressed to him, in his Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, a fine panegyric ; and when a stranger flatteringly told Voltaire he had come to see a great man, the philosopher asked him if he had seen Abauzit.

Whether it was the king's intention to have his son executed as well ( as Voltaire claims ) is not clear.

The French Enlightenment writer Voltaire remarked sardonically: " This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

Voltaire was a highly influential historian during The Enlightenment ; he stressed the need to move away from great men and to study the people and their culture.

The leader of the French Enlightenment and a writer of enormous influence across Europe, was Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ).

When Rousseau subsequently became celebrated as a theorist of education and child-rearing, his abandonment of his children was used by his critics, including Voltaire and Edmund Burke, as the basis for ad hominem attacks.

Welsh Jacobins include William Jones, a radical patriot who was a keen disciple of Voltaire.