Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
DENIS DIDEROTIsn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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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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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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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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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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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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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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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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You have to make it happen.
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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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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