Quote

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Denis Diderot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
Abbé
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Correspondent
Encyclopédistes
Essayist
Historian
Lexicographer
Literary Critic
Literary Theorist
Lumières
Diderot
Existing
Monsters
Survival
Whose
Order
Incompatible
Monster

More quotes by Denis Diderot

Image
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
Denis Diderot
Image
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
Denis Diderot
Image
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
Denis Diderot
Image
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Denis Diderot
Image
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Denis Diderot
Image
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
Denis Diderot
Image
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Denis Diderot
Image
And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
Denis Diderot
Image
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot
Image
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
Image
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
Denis Diderot
Image
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot
Image
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
Denis Diderot
Image
En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals everything weakens as it mellows.
Denis Diderot
Image
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
Denis Diderot
Image
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
Denis Diderot
Image
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it
Denis Diderot
Image
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Denis Diderot
Image
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Denis Diderot
Image
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
Denis Diderot