Denis Diderot Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

  Denis Diderot

  Feelings, Exception, All Things

  Stephen J. Gendzier, Denis Diderot (1967). “Denis Diderot's The Encyclopedia: selections ; edited and translated by Stephen J. Genzier”

• All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Art, Giving

• But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

  Denis Diderot

  Religious, Men, Blood

• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  "D'Alembert's Dream". Book by Denis Diderot, 1830.

• There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

  Denis Diderot

  Feelings, Sublime, Testicles

  Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, November 03, 1760.

• I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

  Denis Diderot

  Thinking, Judging, Feelings

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