In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
DENIS DIDEROTPassions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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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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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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