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.
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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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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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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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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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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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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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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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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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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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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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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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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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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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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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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