It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
DENIS DIDEROTDoctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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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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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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