No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There is not a Musselman[Muslim] alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies… — 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
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
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget 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
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
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