Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
DENIS DIDEROT
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROT
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROT
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
DENIS DIDEROT
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROT
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.
DENIS DIDEROT
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
DENIS DIDEROT
Although 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 DIDEROT
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROT
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
DENIS DIDEROT
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
DENIS DIDEROT
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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