I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
DENIS DIDEROTScepticism is the first step toward truth.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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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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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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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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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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