Denis Diderot
16 quotations
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.