Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
DENIS DIDEROTAll abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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There are cats and cats.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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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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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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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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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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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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