Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
DENIS DIDEROTAnd his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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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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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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