My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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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 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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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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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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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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