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Denis Diderot has 133 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to…
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the…
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is…
— Annie Besant
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be,…
— Bartolome de las Casas
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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is…
— Victor Hugo
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
— Plutarch
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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of…
— John Flavel
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