First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
DENIS DIDEROTAll children are essentially criminal.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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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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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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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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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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