There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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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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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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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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