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Denis Diderot

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: French

Occupation: Editor

Biography: Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie.

Denis Diderot

“He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.”

- Denis Diderot

Source/Notes: As quoted in "Edge-tools of speech" by Maturin Murray Ballou, Houghton, Mifflin, 1899, p. 180

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“Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.”

- Denis Diderot

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“To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.”

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“Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.”

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“Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter.”

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“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.”

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“I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.”

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“If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.”

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“It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected, — who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play, — who can work upon others at his pleasure.”

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“When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.”

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