Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
DENIS DIDEROTWhatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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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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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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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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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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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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My ideas are my whores.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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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 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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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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