Denis Diderot Short Quotes

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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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

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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

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What we call a gentleman is no longer the man of nature.

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Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

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Prosperity unmasks the vices; adversity reveals the virtues.

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One gulps down the flattering lie and sips the bitter truth.

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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

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Gratitude is a burden, and all burdens are made to be cast off.

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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

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Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

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Libertines are hideous spiders, that often catch pretty butterflies.

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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father

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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

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Strong thoughts are iron nails driven in the mind, that nothing can draw out.

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

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

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And [with] the guts of the last priest
Let's shake the neck of the last king.

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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

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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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