Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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My ideas are my whores.
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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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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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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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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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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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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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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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