The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
DENIS DIDEROTOh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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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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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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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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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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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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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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