It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
DENIS DIDEROTBad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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All children are essentially criminal.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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