Ok. So, Voltaire’s philosophical outlook. He was all about the intellectual-laziness. One can twist his (or her) mind into all kinds of crazy loops, and come up with nothing worth a farthing. Unless one has some factual information, based on worldly experience, thoughts are irrelevant. In Candide, Voltaire is criticizing Liebniz’s theories of optimism, and of the fate of the world. Voltaire was a thinker of the Enlightenment, and his work shows that …showed first 75 words of 784 total…

…showed last 75 words of 784 total…the things that happen. In closing, the plight of mankind is a mystery, and thinking optimistically isn’t going to change that (although at times it may make life easier). To quote Jack Handley, “Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind."