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Quotes from Pensées Philosophiques — Denis Diderot

1713–1784 France

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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

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

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Denis Diderot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.