Denis Diderot Pillows

Description: Denis Diderot: The more man ascends through the past, and the more he launches into the future, the greater he will be, and all these philosophers and ministers and truth-telling men who have fallen victims to the stupidity of nations, the atrocities of priests, the fury of tyrants, what consolation was left for them in death? This: That prejudice would pass, and that posterity would pour out the vial of ignominy upon their enemies. O Posterity! Holy and sacred stay of the unhappy and the oppressed; thou who art just, thou who art incorruptible, thou who findest the good man, who unmaskest the hypocrite, who breakest down the tyrant, may thy sure faith, thy consoling faith never, never abandon me!

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Description: Denis Diderot quote: Il y a un peu de testicule au fond de nos sentiments les plus sublimes et de notre tendresse la plus épurée.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: 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.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Aucun homme n'a recu de la nature le droit de commander aux autres. La liberté est un présent du ciel, et chaque individu de la meme espèce a le droit d'en jouir aussitòt qu'il jouit de la raison.

Description: Denis Diderot, French Enlightenment figure, edited "Encyclopédie," championing knowledge dissemination, secularism, and intellectual freedom, shaping modern thought and philosophy.

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Description: Denis Diderot: Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Description: Denis Diderot Abstract Portrait | Denis Diderot Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Description: Denis Diderot: As for our celebrated lawgivers, who have cast us in our present awkward mold, you may be sure that they have acted to serve their interests and not ours. Witness all our political, civil, and religious institutions — examine them thoroughly: unless I am very much mistaken, you will see how, through the ages, the human race has been broken to the halter that a handful of rascals were itching to impose. Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Description: Denis Diderot: Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

Description: Denis Diderot: From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: La reconnaissance est un fardeau, et tout fardeau est fait pour être secoué.

Description: Denis Diderot: Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Description: Denis Diderot: There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: [L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes...

Description: Denis Diderot quote: “The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”

Description: Denis Diderot quote: On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve.

Description: Denis Diderot: One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Description: Denis Diderot: It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Description: Denis Diderot: If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.

Description: Denis Diderot quote: How old the world is! I walk between two eternities... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!

Description: Denis Diderot: When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.