Quotes by Denis Diderot

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is...

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His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion...

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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the...

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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's...

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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

#Denis Diderot