There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
DENIS DIDEROTThe blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Whatever 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.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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My ideas are my whores.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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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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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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