My ideas are my whores.
DENIS DIDEROTThe infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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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 doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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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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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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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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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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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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