If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
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 French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
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 French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0