There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROTThere’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROTA thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROTThe God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
DENIS DIDEROTThe world is the house of the strong.
DENIS DIDEROTMy friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
DENIS DIDEROTThe infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
DENIS DIDEROTIntegrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
DENIS DIDEROTScepticism is the first step towards truth.
DENIS DIDEROTDistance is a great promoter of admiration.
DENIS DIDEROTThe pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROTYou risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROTIsn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
DENIS DIDEROTIn order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
DENIS DIDEROTThe decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROTTo 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.
DENIS DIDEROTIn any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
DENIS DIDEROT