262 Quotes by Denis Diderot

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

كان من أولئك الذين, مع الأسف, ولدوا لكي يمارسوا الفضيلة دون أن يشعروا بحلاوتها, ممن يفعلون الخير من منطلق تطبيق النظام, كما يحاكمون الأمور.

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going?

[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes...(The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.)