Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
DENIS DIDEROTThere’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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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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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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My ideas are my whores.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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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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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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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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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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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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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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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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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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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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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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