In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
DENIS DIDEROTThere are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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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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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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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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