Quotes about Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the...

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you...

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We...

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths...

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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One...

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

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