Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROTDistance is a great promoter of admiration.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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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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My ideas are my whores.
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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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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.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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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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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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