Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
DENIS DIDEROTMorals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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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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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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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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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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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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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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My ideas are my whores.
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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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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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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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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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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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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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