Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
DENIS DIDEROTGood music is very close to primitive language.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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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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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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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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