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As long as the centuries cont...

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Watch out for the fellow who ...

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

The possibility of divorce re...

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

There are things I can't forc...

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

When superstition is allowed ...

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

The philosopher has never kil...

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

To prove the Gospels by a mir...

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

There is less harm to be suff...

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

All things must be examined, ...

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Happiest are the people who g...

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

The bad gives rise to the goo...

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

If exclusive privileges were ...

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

I picture the vast realm of t...

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

There is only one virtue, jus...

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

I like better for one to say ...

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

What is this world? A complex...

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

To say that man is a compound...

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

We swallow with one gulp the ...

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

My friend, you should blow ou...

My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

To describe women, the pen sh...

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

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