59 Quotations by Denis Diderot
- 1. A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impa ...
- 2. All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
- 3. All children are essentially criminal.
- 4. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has fait ...
- 5. Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
- 6. Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can u ...
- 7. Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in th ...
- 8. Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone ...
- 9. Gaiety -- a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
- 10. Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordi ...
- 11. Good music is very close to primitive language.
- 12. I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
- 13. I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
- 14. Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupu ...
- 15. In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its i ...
- 16. In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as fa ...
- 17. Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by ...
- 18. Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?
- 19. It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
- 20. It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product ...
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