Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
DENIS DIDEROTEvil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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There are cats and cats.
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You have to make it happen.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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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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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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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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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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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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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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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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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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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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