When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
DENIS DIDEROTI feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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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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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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If 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.
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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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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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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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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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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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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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