What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot Copy Share
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. — Denis Diderot Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.” — Denis Diderot Copy Share
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. — Denis Diderot Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? — Denis Diderot Copy Share
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 Copy Share
