Candide (Mint Editions (Humorous and Satirical Narratives))

I read that Voltaire wrote Candide to mock Leibniz and his idea of the optimized universe because he thought it was so preposterous.

Even more famous work, Condide, which he published four years after that in 1759.

So in Condit, his, you know, Voltaire's famous kind of satire on that kind of philosophical optimism. It's exemplified by the figure of Pangloss, who is the supposedly the greatest philosopher in the Holy Roman Empire and he accompanies Candide. And they get kind of involved in the earthquake, Pangloss spaying the rubble and the fire and the death and people screaming beneath the shattered fabric of all these churches. He says, oh, it's all for the best.

This is why Voltaire in fucking Candide I brought up Pangloss like he is mocking this idea that like the Pangloss is this like philosopher guy who's saying like this is the best of all possible worlds and everything that happens and it is like the best that can possibly be which is if you're in charge always the way in which you want people to feel like that's all Jordan Peterson is is fucking Pangloss with a fucking binzo problem.

He gives kind of the final word in the book to a Turkish Dervish

in Candide. He gives kind of the final word in the book to a Turkish Dervish

Maybe he read Candide and he was like, so that's what they do in college.

His most popular music was the music he wrote for Broadway musicals, including On the Town, Wonderful Town, West Side Story, and Candide.

I remember reading in French class, I think it was junior year, and Dr. Rowland had assigned Candide by Voltaire, and I hated it by the way.

You have to cultivate your garden.

There's what you can't do, and there's what you can do, and the things that you can do, just do and don't be paralyzed.

You know, when I was in high school, I read Candide. Did you read Candide by Voltaire? Let us go cultivate our garden.

And even as a junior in high school, I was like, oh you have to cultivate your own garden. Don't try to do things that you can't change even though you know that they should be changed.

I also remember when I was 16, I had to read, I think for a French class, Candide, which I hated by Voltaire.

Cultivate our garden.

I had to read, I think for a French class, Candide, which I hated by Voltaire.

I despised it, but I'll never forget the last line. Cultivate our garden. We must cultivate our garden.

I also remember when I was 16, I had to read, I think for a French class, Candide, which I hated by Voltaire. I despised it, but I'll never forget the last line. Cultivate our garden.

the word for this attitude is not stoic it's pan glossian a term derived from the novel can deed from Voltaire