Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROTWhatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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My ideas are my whores.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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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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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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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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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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