Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
DENIS DIDEROTThe pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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There are cats and cats.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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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 world is the house of the strong.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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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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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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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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