Quotes by : Denis Diderot

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

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can....

The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change....

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

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.