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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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 has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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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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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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And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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