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Them Quotes by Denis Diderot
- Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
- When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by…
- 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…
- Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art…
- There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of…
- 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…
- Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the…
- The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of…
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