One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
DENIS DIDEROT
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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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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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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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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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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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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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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