Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
DENIS DIDEROTThe best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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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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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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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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Only 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.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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I 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.
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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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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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