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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.
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Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.
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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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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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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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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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At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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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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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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