Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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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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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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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My ideas are my whores.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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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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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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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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