How easy it is to tell tales!
DENIS DIDEROTScepticism is the first step toward truth.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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