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Man Quotes by Denis Diderot
- No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same…
- Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
- To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser…
- 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…
- Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade…
- If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to…
- Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
- Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
- 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…
- No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
- 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…
- The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
- There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
- Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
- 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…
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle