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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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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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I feel, I think, I judge therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!
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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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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
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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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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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