First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
DENIS DIDEROTEvery man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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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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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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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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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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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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