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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Denis Diderot was an 18th century French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He is best known for his work "Jacques the Fatalist and his Master," a novel that explores the philosophical themes of free will and determinism through the relationship between a servant and his master. The novel was published in 1796, after Diderot's death, and became one of his most famous works.