Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROTSuperstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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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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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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