Denis Diderot

(1713–1784) · French Philosopher

Was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.

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Denis Diderot

(1713–1784) · French Philosopher

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

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