Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
DENIS DIDEROTHow easy it is to tell tales!
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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My ideas are my whores.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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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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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 like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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