Denis Diderot Quotes

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Denis Diderot

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• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

  

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• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

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• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

  

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• Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.

  

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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

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• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

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• If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Petty