Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
DENIS DIDEROTIf you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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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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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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