Famous quotes containing the words denis diderot and/or diderot:
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)