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Famous Denis Diderot Quotes
“Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.”
“There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.”
“When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.”
“In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.”
“There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.”
“Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.”
“The world is the house of the strong.”
“If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.”
“Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.”
“My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.”
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
“All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.”
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”