Denis Diderot Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Happiness, Romantic

  "Pensées Philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1746.

• There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

• 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!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Passion, Order

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

• We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

  Denis Diderot

  Passion, Men, Suffering

  "Diderot". Book by Otis Fellow, 1977.

• Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

  Denis Diderot

  Philosophy, Passion, Doe

  Denis Diderot (1994). “Selected writings on art and literature”, Penguin Group USA

• To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

  Denis Diderot

  Pain, Fear, Ignorance

• Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Passion, Creativity

  "Diderot". Book by Otis Fellows, 1977.

• If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

  Denis Diderot

  Mother, Father, Passion

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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