Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
DENIS DIDEROTAnd his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
DENIS DIDEROTDisturbances 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.
DENIS DIDEROTWhether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROTSuperstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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 DIDEROTWhich is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
DENIS DIDEROTIn order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
DENIS DIDEROTI feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
DENIS DIDEROTIntegrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
DENIS DIDEROTHe whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
DENIS DIDEROTTime, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
DENIS DIDEROTScepticism is the first step towards truth.
DENIS DIDEROTInstinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
DENIS DIDEROTBad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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