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Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
Denis Diderot
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Denis Diderot
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
Denis Diderot
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
Denis Diderot
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Denis Diderot
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
Denis Diderot
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Denis Diderot
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
Denis Diderot
Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.
Denis Diderot
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
Denis Diderot
There is only one virtue, justice only one duty, to be happy only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
Denis Diderot
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.
Denis Diderot
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
Denis Diderot
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
Denis Diderot
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it
Denis Diderot
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot
The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
Denis Diderot
And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
Denis Diderot
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.
Denis Diderot
