List of Denis Diderot Quotes

All Abstract Sciences Are Nothing But The Study Of Relations Between Signs.

The Following General Definition Of An Animal: A System Of Different Organic Molecules That Have Combined With One Another, Under The Impulsion Of A Sensation Similar To An Obtuse And Muffled Sense Of Touch Given To Them By The Creator Of Matter As A Whole, Until Each One Of Them Has Found The Most Suitable Position For Its Shape And Comfort.

Good Music Is Very Close To Primitive Language.

The First Promise Exchanged By Two Beings Of Flesh Was At The Foot Of A Rock That Was Crumbling Into Dust; They Took As Witness For Their Constancy A Sky That Is Not The Same For A Single Instant; Everything Changed In Them And Around Them, And They Believed Their Hearts Free Of Vicissitudes. O Children! Always Children!

The Fact Is That She Was Terribly Undressed And I Was Extremely Undressed Too. The Fact Is That I Still Had My Hand Where She Didn't Have Anything And She Had Hers Where The Same Wasn't Quite True Of Me. The Fact Is That I Found Myself Underneath Her And Consequently She Found Herself On Top Of Me.

If Ever Anybody Dedicated His Whole Life To The "enthusiasm For Truth And Justice" Using This Phrase In The Good Sense It Was Diderot.

We Are All Instruments Endowed With Feeling And Memory. Our Senses Are So Many Strings That Are Struck By Surrounding Objects And That Also Frequently Strike Themselves.

Pithy Sentences Are Like Sharp Nails Which Force Truth Upon Our Memory.

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.

Does Not Vanity Itself Cease To Be Blamable, Is It Not Even Ennobled, When It Is Directed To Laudable Objects, When It Confines Itself To Prompting Us To Great And Generous Actions?

A Thing Is Not Proved Because No One Has Ever Questioned It... Skepticism Is The First Step Toward Truth.

Jacques Said That His Master Said That Everything Good Or Evil We Encounter Here Below Was Written On High.