The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
DENIS DIDEROTNo man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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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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You have to make it happen.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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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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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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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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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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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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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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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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