Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. – Denis Diderot
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. – Denis Diderot
Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope