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
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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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.
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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." Helvetius wants to say: "I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly." I prefer Hobbes who claims that in order to draw a conclusion which takes us somewhere, we must say, "I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find