If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the… — 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
If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess… — 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,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — 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
