If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote is commonly… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
