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
passion men suffering
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
mother father ignorance
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.
art creativity passion
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.
divorce population literature
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
sublime useless doe
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
hands facts found
The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
people giving philanthropy
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others
fate may comfort
I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
strong gambling house
The world is the house of the strong.
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.
christian children father
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
gratitude inspirational-christmas burden
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
kings hands rope
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
fall may taste
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.