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Denis Diderot föddes den 5 oktober 1713 och dog den 31 juli 1784 - French philosopher
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 Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

 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 mass so that it flows forth.

 Good music is very close to primitive language.

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

 Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others

 His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings

 I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it

 Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man / it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.

 In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

 It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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

 it is the chief business of art to touch and to move and to do this by getting close to 'nature.'

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

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

 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.


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