Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROTThe 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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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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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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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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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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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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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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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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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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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