All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
DENIS DIDEROTFor me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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When 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.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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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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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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My ideas are my whores.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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