What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
DENIS DIDEROTIn general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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There are cats and cats.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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You have to make it happen.
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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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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