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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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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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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
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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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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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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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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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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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Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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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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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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