72 ordspråk av Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot föddes den October 5th 1713 och dog den 31 July 1784 - French philosopher
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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 of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. |
| 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. |
| Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. |
| Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. |
| 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. |
| Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. |
| Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. |
| People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. |
| Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory |
| Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. |
| See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned. |
| Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy |
| The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. |
| The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find |
| The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers |
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