The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
DENIS DIDEROTA nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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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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My ideas are my whores.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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There are cats and cats.
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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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All children are essentially criminal.
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