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Imbecility Quotes by Denis Diderot
- To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to…
- If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
More Imbecility Quotes
- All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and… — George Jean Nathan
- To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot
- Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
- It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. — Hilaire Belloc
- The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. — John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
- Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." — H. L. Mencken
- It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to… — Wallace Stegner