Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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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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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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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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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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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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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 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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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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