In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
DENIS DIDEROTGratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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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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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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My ideas are my whores.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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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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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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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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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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