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.
DENIS DIDEROTPithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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 only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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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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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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