Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
DENIS DIDEROTDoes anyone really know where they’re going to?
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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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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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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My ideas are my whores.
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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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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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