You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROTIf there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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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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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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The 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.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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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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Only the bad man is alone.
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