If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
DENIS DIDEROTIf you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
DENIS DIDEROTWhether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROTThe Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
DENIS DIDEROTThe world is the house of the strong.
DENIS DIDEROTFor me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
DENIS DIDEROTAlthough a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
DENIS DIDEROTIn order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
DENIS DIDEROTDoctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
DENIS DIDEROTPhilosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
DENIS DIDEROTI have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
DENIS DIDEROTFrom fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
DENIS DIDEROTThere’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
DENIS DIDEROTPosterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
DENIS DIDEROTIf a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
DENIS DIDEROTIt has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
DENIS DIDEROTInstinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
DENIS DIDEROT