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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
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If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
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There is only one virtue, justice only one duty, to be happy only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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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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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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