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Famous Denis Diderot Quotes
“He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.”
“The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.”
“Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.”
“Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.”
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
“Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”
“In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.”
“Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.”
“Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?”