 | Edna Ernestine Kramer - 1982 - 790 sivua
...man's woes must appear over-optimistic, just as it did to Voltaire, whose Candide satirized Leibniz' "Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." Nevertheless, Leibniz did initiate a "universal language," namely, a form of symbolic logic. The illustrious... | |
 | I.F. Goldstein, M. Goldstein - 1984 - 428 sivua
...mind. Another example is Pangloss in Voltaire's Candide. Pangloss is a philosopher who believes that "Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." It is his practice to explain how everything that happens to Candide or to himself illustrates this... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1986 - 1076 sivua
...From ERISA Investment Performance A. Absence of Policy The Hearings were replete with expressions that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds of ERISA. — Expert witnesses testified that the funds with which they were familiar had all performed... | |
 | Shelby Foote - 1989 - 300 sivua
...We know at least one noble experiment that failed miserably. We don't have the bright outlook that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, because our history taught us differently. And while the war was not always in the forefront of our... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 sivua
...judicious omissions and elisions, and by reversing phrases, the above can be made into the often-quoted, "Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," an aphorism popularized in the 1960s by the musical, Candide, words by Lillian Hellman and music by... | |
 | Thomas V. Morris - 1994 - 298 sivua
...belief that the soul is eternal? That all our acts and thoughts are under constant scrutiny? Or that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds? Such thoughts do indeed constitute elements in the mental world of the pious. But I should like to... | |
 | E. Digby (Edward Digby) Baltzell - 1994 - 330 sivua
...perfection, whether of the Hebraic, bourgeois, or Marxian variety. In its most optimistic and mythical form, everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. In striking contrast to this optimistic view, Sorel, much in the tradition of Tocqueville, Burkhardt,... | |
 | Ken Guy, Erik Arnold - 1995 - 234 sivua
...domination, and exclude fraudulent users from the industry. Few in the OECD countries take the position that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, and that the state should do nothing at all in the field of industrial or technological policy. Politically,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources - 1996 - 418 sivua
...— after so many years in which the business community has maintained that when it came to the NLRA everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds — to hear talk from management of the need to "consider[]" new "approach[es] . . . for the next century."... | |
 | Mads Tønnesson Andenæs, Francis Geoffrey Jacobs - 1998 - 354 sivua
...Law Review Committee and the Revenue: do you think we shall all be saying of our tax legislation that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds? I do not believe so, and I think that a more drastic solution is needed. As an Australian, Professor... | |
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Whatever is, is right," as Pope expressed the lesson which he perhaps learnt from Shaftesbury, or in the phrase of Pangloss, " Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. 
