The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROTScepticism is the first step toward truth.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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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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To 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.
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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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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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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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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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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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There are cats and cats.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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