“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.” — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — 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
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories. — 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
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
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it — 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
