From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
DENIS DIDEROTWatch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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You have to make it happen.
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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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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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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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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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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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There are cats and cats.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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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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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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