Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
DENIS DIDEROTYou can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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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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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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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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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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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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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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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 wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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