Denis Diderot Quotes

Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

There is no greater monster than reason.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?" "Yum," said Mogget. "Yes, sir!" mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried to smother the burning wreckage of his switchboard with a fire blanket.

It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.

Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light...

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse