Quotes by : Denis Diderot

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on....

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty....

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society....

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

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or....

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....

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by....

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation.....