Denis Diderot Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.”

“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.”

“If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.”

“The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”

“Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.”

“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”

“One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.”