You have to make it happen.
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You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROTFirst of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
DENIS DIDEROTThe wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
DENIS DIDEROTWhen superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
DENIS DIDEROTIt is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROTThe decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROTIf a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
DENIS DIDEROTOne may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
DENIS DIDEROTPosterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
DENIS DIDEROTYou can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
DENIS DIDEROTThe 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.
DENIS DIDEROTTo prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROTA thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROTThe pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROTTime, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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