In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
DENIS DIDEROTIn general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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You have to make it happen.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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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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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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All children are essentially criminal.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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