What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
DENIS DIDEROTOnly a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
DENIS DIDEROTI can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
DENIS DIDEROTGaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
DENIS DIDEROTTo prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROTWhen one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
DENIS DIDEROTWhatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
DENIS DIDEROTA thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
DENIS DIDEROTIf a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
DENIS DIDEROTThere is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
DENIS DIDEROTSuperstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROTSkepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
DENIS DIDEROTPoetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
DENIS DIDEROTIt is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
DENIS DIDEROTOne may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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