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.
DENIS DIDEROTThe God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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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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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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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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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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