Denis Diderot Quotes
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Denis Diderot
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Author Details:
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Editor Quotes
Category:
Quotes
Date of Birth:
October 5, 1713
Date of Death:
July 31, 1784
Nationality:
French
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Select Denis Diderot Quotations:
You have to make it happen.
Denis Diderot
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Denis Diderot
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
Denis Diderot
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis Diderot
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot
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Genius is present in every age...
Good music is very close to...
Gratitude is a burden, and every...
His hands would plait the priest's...
If there is one realm in...
If you want me to believe...
In order to shake a hypothesis...
It is not human nature we...
It is said that desire is...
It is very important not to...
Justice is the first virtue of...
Man will never be free until...
Morals are in all countries the...
My ideas are my whores.
No man has received from nature...
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one...
Only a very bad theologian would...
Only passions, great passions can elevate...
Our observation of nature must be...
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that...
People praise virtue, but they hate...
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails...
Poetry must have something in it...
Power acquired by violence is only...
Sentences are like sharp nails, which...
Skepticism is the first step on...
The best doctor is the one...
The best mannered people make the...
The blood of Jesus Christ can...
The decisions of law courts should...
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
The general interest of the masses...
The God of the Christians is...
The infant runs toward it with...
The philosopher has never killed any...
The pit of a theatre is...
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage...
There are things I can't force...
There are three principal means of...
There is no good father who...
There is no kind of harassment...
There is no moral precept that...
There is only one passion, the...
To attempt the destruction of our...
Watch out for the fellow who...
We are all instruments endowed with...
We are far more liable to...
We swallow greedily any lie that...
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are...
When superstition is allowed to perform...
You have to make it happen.
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