Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
DENIS DIDEROTThe best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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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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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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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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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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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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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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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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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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There are cats and cats.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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