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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
- Denis Diderot
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#Petty
#Respect
#Thief
#Wickedness
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
- Denis Diderot
#Must
#Poetry
#Something
#Vast
#Wild
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
#Divorce
#Help
#Marriage
#Morals
#Owe
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
- Denis Diderot
#First Step
#First
#Road
#Step
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
- Denis Diderot
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#God
#Me
#Touch
#Want
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
- Denis Diderot
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#Hands
#Kings
#Priest
#Rope
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
- Denis Diderot
#Adult
#Back
#Eyes
#Man
#Old Man
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
- Denis Diderot
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#Memory
#Nails
#Sharp
#Truth
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
- Denis Diderot
#Mask
#Never
#Religion
#Society
#Trouble
#True
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
- Denis Diderot
#Ephemeral
#Motive
#Patriotism
#Society
#Threat
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
- Denis Diderot
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#Long
#Obey
#Power
#Violence
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
- Denis Diderot
#Art
#Live
#Man
#Personality
#Science
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
#Always
#Control
#Order
#People
#Things
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
- Denis Diderot
#Believe
#God
#Important
#Mistake
#Very
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
- Denis Diderot
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#Every
#Gratitude
#Made
#Off
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
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#Force
#Greatest
#Must
#Things
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
- Denis Diderot
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#Never
#Priest
#Priests
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
- Denis Diderot
#Barbarism
#Fanaticism
#Only
#Step
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
- Denis Diderot
#Happiness
#Only
#Passion
You have to make it happen.
- Denis Diderot
#Happen
#Make It Happen
#Motivational
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot
#Find
#Lie
#Little
#Truth
#Us
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
- Denis Diderot
#Human
#Man
#Nature
#Power
#Right
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
- Denis Diderot
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#Doctor
#Find
#Medical
#Run
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
- Denis Diderot
#Knowledge
#Nature
#Reflection
#Result
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot
#Great Things
#Great
#Only
#Soul
#Things
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
- Denis Diderot
#Free
#Freedom
#King
#Man
#Will
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