What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
DENIS DIDEROTScepticism is the first step towards truth.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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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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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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