There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
DENIS DIDEROTOnly God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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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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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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You have to make it happen.
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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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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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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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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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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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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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