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Whether God exists or does no...

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Only passions, and great pass...

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

There's a bit of testicle at ...

There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

But if you will recall the hi...

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

I have not the hope of being ...

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Only passions, great passions...

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

One may demand of me that I s...

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

The philosopher forms his pri...

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

First of all move me, surpris...

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Instinct guides the animal be...

Instinct 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 220 quotes

You can be sure that a painte...

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Ignorance is less remote from...

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

A thing is not proved just be...

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

What has not been examined im...

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Wandering in a vast forest at...

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Scepticism is the first step ...

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

L'homme est ne pour la soci...

L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera, mille affections ridicules s'e le' veront dans son coeur; des 274 pense es extravagantes germeront dans son esprit, comme les ronces dans une terre sauvage. Man is born to live in society: separate him, isolate him, and his ideas disintegrate, his character changes, a thousand ridiculous affectations rise up in his heart; extreme thoughts take hold in his mind, like the brambles in a wild field.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

Do you see this egg? With thi...

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

La poe sie veutquelque chose...

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

It is raining bombs on the ho...

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

Denis Diderot 220 quotes

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