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.
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 enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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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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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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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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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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My ideas are my whores.
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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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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