Denis Diderot

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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

age

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.

Denis Diderot

age

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.

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art

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

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best

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

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change

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

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death

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.

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faith

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

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freedom

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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government

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

government

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