If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
DENIS DIDEROTIf you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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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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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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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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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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