There are cats and cats.
DENIS DIDEROTNo man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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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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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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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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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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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 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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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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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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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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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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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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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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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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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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