Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROT
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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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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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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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