Only the bad man is alone.
DENIS DIDEROTPhilosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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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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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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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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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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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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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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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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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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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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