I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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There are cats and cats.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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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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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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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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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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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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