We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
DENIS DIDEROT
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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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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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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There are cats and cats.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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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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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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