And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
DENIS DIDEROTWhat is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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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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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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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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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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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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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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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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