Quotes by : Denis Diderot

You have to make it happen.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use....

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light.....

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.....

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of....

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because....

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused....

One declaims endlessly against the passions one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that....

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's....

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.