All Denis Diderot Quotes
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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