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Denis Diderot Quotes

«Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.»
Author: Denis Diderot | Keywords: elevate, passions
«There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.»
Author: Denis Diderot | About: Change | Keywords: adjust, adjusting, adjusts, Changing Times, force, greatest, needed, The Greatest, times, viewpoint, viewpoints
«Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest»
Author: Denis Diderot | About: Freedom, Men | Keywords: Be Free, entrails, king, priest, strangle, strangled, strangles, strangling
«If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.»
Author: Denis Diderot | About: Atheism
«We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.»
Author: Denis Diderot | Keywords: flatters, greedily, sip, sipped, Sipping, sips, swallow
«There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.»
Author: Denis Diderot | About: Knowledge | Keywords: acquiring, collects, combination, combines, experimentation, observation, principal, reflection, verified, verifies, verifying
«The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers»
Author: Denis Diderot | Keywords: well-mannered
«The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.»
Author: Denis Diderot | Keywords: killed, philosopher, philosophers, priest, priests, The Philosopher
«Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.»
Author: Denis Diderot | Keywords: talks, watch out
«Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy»
Author: Denis Diderot | About: Skepticism | Keywords: first step, on the road, skepticism, step on
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