Denis Diderot

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety,…

— Denis Diderot

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source…

— Denis Diderot

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

— Denis Diderot

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

— Denis Diderot

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

— Denis Diderot

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and…

— Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong.

— Denis Diderot

“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.”

— Denis Diderot

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

— Denis Diderot

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

— Denis Diderot

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under…

— Denis Diderot

“Nie wiem, co to zasady, chyba że tak nazywamy prawidła, które przypisuje się innym, a nie sobie. Myślę tak, a nie umiałbym…

— Denis Diderot

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

— Denis Diderot

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

— Denis Diderot

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to…

— Denis Diderot

I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it…

— Denis Diderot

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

— Denis Diderot

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

— Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

— Denis Diderot

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in…

— Denis Diderot

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

— Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

— Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

— Denis Diderot

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers…

— Denis Diderot

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

— Denis Diderot