From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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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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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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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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