When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
DENIS DIDEROTI have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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There are cats and cats.
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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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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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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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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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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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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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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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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Scepticism is the first step towards 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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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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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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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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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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