It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
DENIS DIDEROTWhen one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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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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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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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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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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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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