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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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