Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROTI can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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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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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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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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You have to make it happen.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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