The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
DENIS DIDEROTWandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
More Denis Diderot Quotes
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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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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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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I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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There are cats and cats.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Only the bad man is alone.
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You have to make it happen.
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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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