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 DIDEROTMy ideas are my whores.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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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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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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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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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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There are cats and cats.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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