I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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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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It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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My ideas are my whores.
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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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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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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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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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