Denis Diderot Quotes & Quotations

Denis Diderot Quotes

» The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

» We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

» 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.

» 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, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.

» Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

» Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

» It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

» The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

» There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

» The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

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