Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
DENIS DIDEROTYou have to make it happen.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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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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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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All children are essentially criminal.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bad 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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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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