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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
DENIS DIDEROT
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
DENIS DIDEROT
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROT
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
DENIS DIDEROT
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
DENIS DIDEROT
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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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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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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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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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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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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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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