Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
DENIS DIDEROTIf you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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My ideas are my whores.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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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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