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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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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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Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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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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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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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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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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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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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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There are cats and cats.
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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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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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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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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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