I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
DENIS DIDEROTDistance is a great promoter of admiration.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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My ideas are my whores.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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