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Oh! how near are genius and ma...

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

My friend, you should blow out...

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

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

When shall we see poets born? ...

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Man was born to live with his ...

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.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

I feel, I think, I judge; ther...

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Wandering in a vast forest at ...

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Distance is a great promoter o...

Distance is a great promoter of admiration

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

You can be sure that a painter...

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

The bad gives rise to the good...

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

The world is the house of the ...

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.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

If reason be a gift of Heaven,...

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

What a fine comedy this world ...

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

In any country where talent an...

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

There's a bit of testicle at t...

There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Time, matter, space - all, it ...

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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

In general, children, like men...

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Isn't it better to have men be...

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Give, but, if possible, spare ...

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Anyone who takes it upon himse...

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

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