The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
DENIS DIDEROTTo describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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There are cats and cats.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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