Quotes by Diderot, Denis

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationar >>

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory >>

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It free >>

Quotations about Genius

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows uncon >>

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the op >>

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by l >>

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Diderot, Denis