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Denis Diderot Quotes

«The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.»
«See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.»
Author: Denis Diderot
«it is the chief business of art to touch and to move and to do this by getting close to 'nature.'»
Author: Denis Diderot
«A sketch is generally more spirited than a picture,»
Author: Denis Diderot
«There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.»
«We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.»
Author: Denis Diderot
«To do his duty somehow, always to speak well of the Prior, and let the world go its own way.»
Author: Denis Diderot | Keywords: prior
«When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,»
Author: Denis Diderot | Keywords: A level, dazzling
«Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.»

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