Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
DENIS DIDEROTEvery man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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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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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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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 man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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There are cats and cats.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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