First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
DENIS DIDEROTIn general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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My ideas are my whores.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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