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Famous Denis Diderot Quotes
“There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.”
“Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.”
“And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.”
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
“The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”
“Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”
“Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.”
“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.”
“What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.”
“If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.”
“In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.”
“Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.”
“Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?”
“Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.”
“Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.”