Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
DENIS DIDEROTWandering 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.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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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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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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 infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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