Denis Diderot Quotes - Page 6

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• The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

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  Strong, Gambling, Hands

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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

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  Loss, Religion, Prejudice

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

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  Beautiful, Crazy, Stupid

  "'Ceci n'est pas un conte' ('This Is No Tale')". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!

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  Fall, Rocks, Dust

  "Salon of 1767". Book by Denis Diderot, 1798.

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

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  Evil, Genius, World

  "Dictionary of Foreign Quotations". Book by Mary Collison and Robert L. Collison, p. 98, 1980.

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• We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?

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  Country, Men, Thinking

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• Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

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  Philosophy, Passion, Doe

  Denis Diderot (1994). “Selected writings on art and literature”, Penguin Group USA

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

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  Happiness, Men, Quality

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

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  Firsts, Steps, First Steps

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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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  Father, Order, Able

  Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen (2001). “Rameau's Nephew and Other Works”, p.79, Hackett Publishing

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• Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

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  Religion, Atheism, Firsts

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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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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  Science, Eggs, Church

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

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  Heart, Character, Men

  "Memoirs of a Nun". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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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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  Savages, Needs, Scales

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• People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

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  Death, Running, Hate

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Order, Color

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• It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. To forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism.

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  Ignorance, Government, People

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• We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

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  Passion, Men, Suffering

  "Diderot". Book by Otis Fellow, 1977.

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• If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

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  Mother, Father, Passion

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

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  Wall, Views, Religion

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• Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel.

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  Heart, Blood, Atheism

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• L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera, mille affections ridicules s'e le' veront dans son coeur; des 274 pense es extravagantes germeront dans son esprit, comme les ronces dans une terre sauvage. Man is born to live in society: separate him, isolate him, and his ideas disintegrate, his character changes, a thousand ridiculous affectations rise up in his heart; extreme thoughts take hold in his mind, like the brambles in a wild field.

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  Heart, Character, Son

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• There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

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  Men, Literature, May

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

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  Moral, Poetic, Plus

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• Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

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  Philosophy, Fanaticism

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