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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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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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La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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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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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.
Denis Diderot
There are cats and cats.
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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
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Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.
Denis Diderot
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Denis Diderot
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.
Denis Diderot
It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
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