Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
DENIS DIDEROTIn order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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You have to make it happen.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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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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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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