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Denis Diderot Quotes

French - Editor | October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Hands Kings Rope Priest Guts Would

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.

Hate Death People World Feet Warm

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Push Go Sometimes Will More Order

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Step First Step Philosophy First

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Gratitude Burden Off Made Every

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

God Mistake Believe Important Very

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Nothing Study Signs Abstract Between

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Quality Men Genius Always Ordinary

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Bad Certainty Revelation Things Only

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Father God Children Little Apples

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Marriage Morals Help Divorce Improve

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Man Me Someone Dignity Forget Own

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