Quote by Denis Diderot
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manif

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot

Other quotes by Denis Diderot

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. – Denis Diderot

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Marriage
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you cant deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. – Denis Diderot

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respect
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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

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Order
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. – Yoko Ono

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Art

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. – Anais Nin

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Art

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken

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Art

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant articulate. – Mos Def

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Art

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If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. – Jerry Saltz

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold. – G. K. Chesterton

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The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first. – Italian Proverb

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. – Joseph Stiglitz

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