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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart make me tremble, weep, shudder outrage me delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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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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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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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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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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You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence they have relegated him to a sanctuary the walls of the temple restrict his view he does not exist outside of it.
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If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.
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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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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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There is only one virtue, justice only one duty, to be happy only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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