There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROTTo describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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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 Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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