Associations to the word «Voltaire»

Wiktionary

VOLTAIRE, proper noun. A pen name of the French philosopher François-Marie Arouet.
VOLTAIRE, proper noun. A city/village in North Dakota.

Dictionary definition

VOLTAIRE, noun. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin