Denis Diderot Quotes

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

Does anyone really know where they’re going to?

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

How easy it is to tell tales!