Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
DENIS DIDEROTOnly a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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You have to make it happen.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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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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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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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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