Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
DENIS DIDEROTIn order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Only the bad man is alone.
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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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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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