Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
DENIS DIDEROTOur observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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The 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.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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