59 Quotations by Denis Diderot
- 41. The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it w ...

- 42. The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society ...

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

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

- 45. The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties ...

- 46. The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this ...

- 47. There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a ...

- 48. There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, refle ...

- 49. There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized soci ...

- 50. There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

- 51. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

- 52. To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the z ...

- 53. Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always mea ...

- 54. We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are stru ...

- 55. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bi ...

- 56. We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter ...

- 57. When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o ...

- 58. When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can ...

- 59. You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

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