French - Editor | October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784
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.
Denis Diderot
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You have to make it happen.
MotivationalMake It HappenYouMake
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
TruthLieFindLittleBitterUs
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
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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.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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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.
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