The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? — 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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous… — 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
What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of… — 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
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
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also… — 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
One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera,… — 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 Image
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 Image
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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 Image
“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.” — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
![“This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what…” quote by Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/397/denis-diderot-1536_asks_this-root-the-potato-no-matter-how-much_953200.jpg)
![“To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]” quote by Denis Diderot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/580/denis-diderot-1536_absurdity_to-brand-man-with-infamy-and-let-him-fre_2855779.jpg)
