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Denis Diderot - From the Activity category:
You have to make it happen. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Change category:
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Colour category:
Ah, Chardin, what you grind on your palette is not this color or that... but the very substance of things. You dip your brush in air and light and spread them on your canvas. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Desire category:
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Earth category:
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities... (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Emotion category:
- appeal made to artists...
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Freedom category:
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. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Genius category:
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)
Denis Diderot - From the Immortality category:
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. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Knowledge category:
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)
Denis Diderot - From the Life category:
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it! (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Music category:
Good music is very close to primitive language. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Opposites category:
- quoted in The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations, (1963) by Norbert Gutermam...
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Order category:
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Passion category:
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Patriotism category:
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Philosophy category:
Scepticism is the first step towards truth. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Religion category:
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Temperament category:
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Truth category:
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. (Denis Diderot)
Denis Diderot - From the Writing category:
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. (Denis Diderot)
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