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

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: D'Alembert's Dream (1769)

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“Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.”

- Denis Diderot

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“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

Source/Notes: Rameau's Nephew (1762)

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“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.”

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: Addition aux Pensées philosophiques (1770)

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

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: Rameau's Nephew (1762)

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

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 98

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“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: Essai sur le Mérite et la Vertu (1745)

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“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

Source/Notes: On Dramatic Poetry (1758)

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“Good music is very close to primitive language.”

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: Correspondence of Ideas with the Motion of Organs - Elements of Physiology (1875)

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

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: Rameau's Nephew (1762)

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

- Denis Diderot

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“If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.”

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: Rameau's Nephew (1762)

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

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: Diderot, interpreter of nature: selected writings (1963 edition)

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“In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.”

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: On the Interpretation of Nature (1753)

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