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A sketch is generally more spirited than a picture, - Denis Diderot Quotes

A sketch is generally more spirited than a picture,

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. - Denis Diderot Quotes

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy - Denis Diderot Quotes

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy

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. - Denis Diderot Quotes

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.

Money

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory - Denis Diderot Quotes

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

Force

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. - Denis Diderot Quotes

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Fanatics And Fanaticism People

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. - Denis Diderot Quotes

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

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. - Denis Diderot Quotes

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.

Age And Aging Quotes

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. - Denis Diderot Quotes

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Science And Scientists

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. - Denis Diderot Quotes

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

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