The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that…

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the…

— Denis Diderot

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…

— Denis Diderot

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

— Denis Diderot

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

— Denis Diderot

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

— Denis Diderot

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it…

— Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong.

— Denis Diderot

“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.”

— Denis Diderot

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

— Denis Diderot

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

— Denis Diderot

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

— Denis Diderot

“Nie wiem, co to zasady, chyba że tak nazywamy prawidła, które przypisuje się innym, a nie sobie. Myślę tak, a nie umiałbym się powstrzymać…

— Denis Diderot

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

— Denis Diderot

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

— Denis Diderot

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very…

— Denis Diderot