Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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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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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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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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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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