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
god christian religious
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
fall dark light
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.
children men entertainment
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
god religious men
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
children criminals
All children are essentially criminal.
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.
jesus blood literature
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
generally sketch spirited
A sketch is generally more spirited than a picture,
disorder gaiety genius ordinary quality
Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
peace war tyrants
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
inspirational happiness happy
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen.
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.
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.