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Quote by Denis Diderot
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. – Denis Diderot

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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. – Denis Diderot

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