There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
DENIS DIDEROTThe best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
DENIS DIDEROTIf you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is only one duty; that is to be happy.
DENIS DIDEROTI 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.
DENIS DIDEROTThere are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
DENIS DIDEROTIn general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
DENIS DIDEROTAll abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
DENIS DIDEROTEvil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
DENIS DIDEROTOnly passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
DENIS DIDEROTMy ideas are my whores.
DENIS DIDEROTTwo qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
DENIS DIDEROTIsn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
DENIS DIDEROTPhilosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
DENIS DIDEROTSuperstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROT