Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
DENIS DIDEROTTwo qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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 God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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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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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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My ideas are my whores.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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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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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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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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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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