You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROTWe are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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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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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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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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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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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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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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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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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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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
DENIS DIDEROT