No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the r… - Denis Diderot

But how do you know that the whole world hasn't its meninges, or that there isn't a big or little spider living in some corner of space with threads extending everywhere?

MASTER: and if you want to gain time, why go as slowly as you are going?

JACQUES: Because, without knowing what is written up above, none of us knows what we want or what we are doing, and we follow our whims which we call reason, or our reason which is often nothing but a dangerous whim which sometimes turns out well, sometimes badly.

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