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Order 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…
- In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
- Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend,…
- My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
- If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
- Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
- To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like…
- In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
- What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
- 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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