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One Quotes by Denis Diderot
- In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
- I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must…
- 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…
- We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
- What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
- 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…
- Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the…
- If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to…
- From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
- The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
- There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
- The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
- Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
- If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you…
- 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…
- As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when…
- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone…
- In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or…
- Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster