Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROTPithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROTPower acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
DENIS DIDEROTI have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
DENIS DIDEROTA nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
DENIS DIDEROTPoetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
DENIS DIDEROTFrom fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
DENIS DIDEROTWatch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
DENIS DIDEROTAt 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.
DENIS DIDEROTIt is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROTGive, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
DENIS DIDEROTIn order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
DENIS DIDEROTJacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
DENIS DIDEROTIf ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROTSuperstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROTWhether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROTGood music is very close to primitive language.
DENIS DIDEROT