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Denis Diderot Inspirational Quotes (111)

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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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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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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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You have to make it happen.
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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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I feel, I think, I judge therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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