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Scepticism is the first step towards 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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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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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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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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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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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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There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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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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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
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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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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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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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Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
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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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