All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
Denis Diderot
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.
Denis Diderot
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Denis Diderot
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Denis Diderot
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Denis Diderot
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis Diderot
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Denis Diderot
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
Denis Diderot
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
Denis Diderot
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis Diderot
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Denis Diderot
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Denis Diderot
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
Denis Diderot
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Denis Diderot
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
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