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Denis Diderot
: We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
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One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough account of the feeling that is always in SF.
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True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
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The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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.
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Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
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Attributions to Diderot of similar statements also occur in various forms, ie: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
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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.
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Reason is to the philosopher what grace is to the Christian. Grace causes the Christian to act, reason the philosopher. Other men are carried away by their passions, their actions not being preceded by reflection: these are the men who walk in darkness. On the other hand, the philosopher, even in his passions, acts only after reflection; he walks in the dark, but by a torch. The philosopher forms his principles from an infinity of particular observations. Most people adopt principles without thinking of the observations that have produced them, they believe the maxims exist, so to speak, by themselves. But the philosopher takes maxims from their source; he examines their origin; he knows their proper value, and he makes use of them only in so far as they suit him. Truth is not for the philosopher a mistress who corrupts his imagination and whom he believes to be found everywhere; he contents himself with being able to unravel it where he can perceive it. He does not confound it with probability; he takes for true what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is only probable. He does more, and here you have a great perfection of the philosopher: when he has no reason by which to judge, he knows how to live in suspension of judgment... The philosophical spirit is, then, a spirit of observation and exactness, which relates everything to true principles...
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I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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