Good music is very close to primitive language.
DENIS DIDEROTSuperstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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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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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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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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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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