Denis Diderot Quotes & Quotations

Denis Diderot Quotes

» I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

» 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.

» The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

» Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

» To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

» The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

» The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

» It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

» Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

» The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

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