To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROTThe possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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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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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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