Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
More Quotes from Denis Diderot:
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
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.
Denis Diderot
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis Diderot
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
See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.
Denis Diderot
Oh how near are genius and madness Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
Denis Diderot
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