Denis Diderot Quotes

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

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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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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

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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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His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

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Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

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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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Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

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See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.

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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster

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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

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The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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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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One declaims endlessly against the passions one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collectsfacts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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You have to make it happen.

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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

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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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