Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderotʁo]; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 October 1713
jesus blood literature
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
design religion use
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
men literature may
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
strong hands years
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
loss religion prejudice
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
savages needs scales
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.
war people sovereign
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
religion firsts steps
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.
desire facts said
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
giving inspire excellent
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
philosophical objectivity doe
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.
god religious mistake
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen.