All children are essentially criminal.
DENIS DIDEROTDoctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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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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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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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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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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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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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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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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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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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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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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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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