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.
DENIS DIDEROT
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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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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.
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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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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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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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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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