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Denis Diderot Quotes (118 quotes)

“Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?”
―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

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

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

“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.”
―Denis Diderot

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

“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.”
―Denis Diderot

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

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

“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.”
―Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot

Born: October 5, 1713

Died: July 31, 1784 (aged 70)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Editor

Bio: 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.

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