Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. Denis Diderot More Quotes by Denis Diderot More Quotes From Denis Diderot 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. Denis Diderot matter comfort animal If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful. Denis Diderot color beautiful order How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot tales easy fiction 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! Denis Diderot change time love Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. Denis Diderot taste may fall It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties. Denis Diderot atheism house rain What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth. Denis Diderot Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. Denis Diderot We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot To place patients of different illnesses in the same ward is to use people to kill each other. approx quote, possibly on L Hotel Dieu in Paris. Denis Diderot Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm. Denis Diderot His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. Denis Diderot priest rope kings hands
