I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
DENIS DIDEROTOnly 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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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There are cats and cats.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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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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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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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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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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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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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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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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