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• Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

  Denis Diderot

  Distance, Admiration, Promoters

  "Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts". Book by Edmund Fuller, 1942.

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• 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.

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  People, Religion, Atheism

  "Conversations with a Christian Lady". "Selected Writings", edited by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• 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

  Design, Religion, Use

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

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• There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

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  Father, Want, Heavenly

  "Philosophical Thoughts". Book by Denis Diderot, No. 51, 1746.

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• There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

  Denis Diderot

  Mad, Psychological, Harm

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• There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

  Denis Diderot

  Duty

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• To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

  Denis Diderot

  Women, Butterfly, Dust

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• You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

  Denis Diderot

  Risk, Suspicious

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• A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

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  Religion, Gone, Firsts

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• Does anyone really know where they're going to?

  Denis Diderot

  Doe, Knows

  Denis Diderot, David Coward (1999). “Jacques the Fatalist and His Master”, p.3, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You have to make it happen.

  Denis Diderot

  Literature, Happens, Make It Happen

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• The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

  Denis Diderot

  People, Lovers, Sexuality

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• Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

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  Blow, Night, Light

  "Addition aux Pensées philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1770.

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• When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

  Denis Diderot

  Heart, Knows, Acquire

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• The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

  Denis Diderot

  Philosophical, Objectivity, Infinity

  "L'Encyclopédie", Article on Philosophy, Volume 25, 1766.

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• My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

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  Blow, Order, Way

  "Addition aux Pensées philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1770.

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• The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

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  Giving, Inspire, Excellent

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• 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

  Acceptance, Perspective, Viewpoints

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe : The Key to a Whole New World of Enlightenment and Enrichment". Book by Matthew M Radmanesh, 2006.

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• He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

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  Men, Gentleman, He Man

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• My ideas are my whores.

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  Ideas

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Age, Genius

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

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• The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

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  God, Religious, Men

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• Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

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  Creativity, Mean, Reflection

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

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  Justice, Atheism, Virtue

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• I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

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  Funny, Wise, Honesty

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

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