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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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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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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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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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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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If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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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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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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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
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En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals everything weakens as it mellows.
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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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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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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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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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