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Denis Diderot Quotes

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.  (Denis Diderot Quotes) One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.  (Denis Diderot Quotes) My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.  (Denis Diderot Quotes) No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Good music is very close to primitive language  (Denis Diderot Quotes) It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things  (Denis Diderot Quotes) There is only one passion, the passion for happiness  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine  (Denis Diderot Quotes) The best doctor is the one you run for and can’t find  (Denis Diderot Quotes) And with the guts of the last priest let us strangle the last king  (Denis Diderot Quotes) There are cats and cats  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence  (Denis Diderot Quotes) All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs  (Denis Diderot Quotes) There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it  (Denis Diderot Quotes) We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine  (Denis Diderot Quotes) What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order  (Denis Diderot Quotes) If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful  (Denis Diderot Quotes) In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful  (Denis Diderot Quotes) There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. Observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination  (Denis Diderot Quotes) When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years  (Denis Diderot Quotes) Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man  (Denis Diderot Quotes)
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