Sohma Hatori quotes

Discover insightful quotes by Sohma Hatori, the mysterious and stoic character from the popular manga and anime series, Fruits Basket. Dive deep into his complex psyche with his profound words.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

- Denis Diderot

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

- Denis Diderot

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

- Denis Diderot

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 can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

- Denis Diderot

You have to make it happen.

- Denis Diderot

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

- Denis Diderot

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.

- Denis Diderot

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

- Denis Diderot

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

- Denis Diderot

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

- Denis Diderot

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

- Denis Diderot

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

- Denis Diderot

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

- Denis Diderot

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

- Denis Diderot

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

- Denis Diderot

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

- Denis Diderot

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

- Denis Diderot

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

- Denis Diderot

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

- Denis Diderot

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

- Denis Diderot

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

- Denis Diderot

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 man's name live for thousands of years.

- Denis Diderot

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

- Denis Diderot

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.

- Denis Diderot

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

- Denis Diderot

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

- Denis Diderot

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

- Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

- Denis Diderot

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

- Denis Diderot

My ideas are my whores.

- Denis Diderot