Denis Diderot Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

15 Famous Quotes by Denis Diderot
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“Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy”
Skepticism Quotes
“The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.”
Philosophy Quotes
Source: Last Conversation
“Distance is a great promoter of admiration!”
Admiration Quotes
“In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.”
Theory Quotes
“In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.”
Death / immortality Quotes
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
Humanity Quotes
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
Literature Quotes
“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”
Maxim Quotes
“There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.”
Men and women Quotes
“No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.”
Perspective Quotes
“There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.”
Psychological subjects Quotes
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.”
Society Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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