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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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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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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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How easy it is to tell tales!
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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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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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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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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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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
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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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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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