Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master
Genius and Gaiety
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot – Jacque the Fatalist and his Master