The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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