There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
DENIS DIDEROTOh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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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 enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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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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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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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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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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