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Denis Diderot
: It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
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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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