Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
DENIS DIDEROTThe best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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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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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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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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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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My ideas are my whores.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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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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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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