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Matter Quotes by Denis Diderot
- This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies…
- I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
- The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they…
- The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation…
- Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." Helvetius wants to say: "I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly." I prefer Hobbes who claims that…
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