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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.
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There are cats and cats.
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One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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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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Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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You have to make it happen.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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