My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
DENIS DIDEROTPosterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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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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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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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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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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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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All children are essentially criminal.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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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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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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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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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 wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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