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14 Quotes for 'Denis Diderot' in the Database.
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Denis Diderot Quotes
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Topic: Admiration
Source: None
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Topic: Death / Immortality
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Topic: Humanity
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Topic: Literature
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Topic: Maxim
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Topic: Men and Women
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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.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Topic: Perspective
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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: Last Conversation
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There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
Topic: Society
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Topic: Theory
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