Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
DENIS DIDEROTOur observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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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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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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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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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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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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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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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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