Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
DENIS DIDEROTWhat has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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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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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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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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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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