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
inspirational literature doe
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
memories literature nails
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
justice literature firsts
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
men literature dignity
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
men literature may
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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You have to make it happen.
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See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.
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Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
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To do his duty somehow, always to speak well of the Prior, and let the world go its own way.