Famous quotes containing the word diderot:
“Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Gaiety—a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)