To 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.
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 God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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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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My ideas are my whores.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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