It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote is commonly… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
