262 Quotes by Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

All children are essentially criminal.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.