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" We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. "

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" The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. "

Denis Diderot

Divorce

Marriage

Morals

" It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. "

" There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. "

" Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. "

" 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. "

" Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. "

" Good music is very close to primitive language. "

" We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. "

" Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. "

" Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. "

" You have to make it happen. "

" All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. "

" 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 that combination. "

" Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. "

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

" The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. "

" From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. "

" Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. "

" There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. "

" 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 pleasures. "

" Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. "

" It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. "

" Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. "

Denis Diderot

Loss

Makes

" There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. "

" Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. "

" Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. "

" Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. "

" The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. "

" If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. "

Denis Diderot

Believe

God

" There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. "