Quote by Denis Diderot
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the ins

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. – Denis Diderot

Other quotes by Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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Nature
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot

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Knowledge
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. – Denis Diderot

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Assumptions
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The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I cant have those things then I feel like a caged animal and Id rather not be in a cage. Id rather be dead. And its real simple. And I think its not that uncommon. – Angelina Jolie

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Freedom

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it. – Corazon Aquino

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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. – Kwame Nkrumah

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Freedom

Im interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. – Jim Morrison

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Freedom

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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. – Paul Tillich

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I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. – Lord Dunsany

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Travel

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). – Berlin Royal Library, inscription

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Libraries