Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROTFirst move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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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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All children are essentially criminal.
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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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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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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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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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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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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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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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