Denis Quotes

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

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.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

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.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.

There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.

Death is the mother of beauty.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

A win would be better than a draw.

Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments

Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.

Everyone should have an evil secret plan.

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

We do seem to bicker and bicker. Sometimes I feel we're like an old married couple, who think occasionally of murdering each other - but never of divorce.

If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.