Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
DENIS DIDEROTDoes anyone really know where they’re going to?
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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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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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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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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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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You have to make it happen.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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