Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROTScepticism is the first step towards truth.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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The world is the house of the strong.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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My ideas are my whores.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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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