Good music is very close to primitive language.
DENIS DIDEROTAnd his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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You have to make it happen.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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