"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."
― Denis Diderot
Topic(s): Nature
― Denis Diderot
More From Denis Diderot
- "Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
- "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."
- "Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
More In Nature
- "There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can – without going against nature."― Zoe Saldana
- "Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature."― Charles Dickens
- "The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual."― Mikhail Bakunin