Quotes by : Denis Diderot

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands....

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

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

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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

How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were....

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

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the....

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

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