Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
DENIS DIDEROTMy ideas are my whores.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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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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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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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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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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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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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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