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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
— Denis Diderot
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
— Denis Diderot
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
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
— Denis Diderot
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
— Denis Diderot
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
— Denis Diderot
Does anyone really know where they're going to?
— Denis Diderot
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
— Denis Diderot
The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it.
— Denis Diderot
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
— Denis Diderot
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
— Denis Diderot
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
— Denis Diderot
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
— Denis Diderot
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
— Denis Diderot
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
— Denis Diderot
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
— Denis Diderot
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
— Denis Diderot
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
— Denis Diderot
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
— Denis Diderot
My ideas are my whores.
— Denis Diderot
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
— Denis Diderot
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
— Denis Diderot
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
— Denis Diderot
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
— Denis Diderot
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
— Denis Diderot
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
— Denis Diderot
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
— Denis Diderot
