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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.
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 God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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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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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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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One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
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Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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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.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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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.
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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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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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