Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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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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The world is the house of the strong.
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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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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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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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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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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 man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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