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
desire facts said
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
savages needs scales
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
men command humans
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
religion firsts steps
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
war people sovereign
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
strong hands years
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
design religion use
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
funny running humorous
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
acceptance perspective viewpoints
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
my-thoughts
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
hurt men self
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
science technology study
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
blow night light
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.