Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderotʁo]; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 October 1713
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales!
gratitude inspirational-christmas burden
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
god christian religious
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
christian children father
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
creativity mean reflection
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
god religious men
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
father want heavenly
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
fall may taste
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
silence important matter
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
character criticism deceit
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
cat
There are cats and cats.
son soul devil
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
philosophy passion doe
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
novelty genius forging-ahead
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.