In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
DENIS DIDEROTDo you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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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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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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There are cats and cats.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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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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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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