Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
DENIS DIDEROTPoetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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You have to make it happen.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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