List of Liberal Theorists - From Locke To Mill - Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (France, 1713–1784)

  • Some literature:
    • Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (together with others), 1751–1772 (Encyclopaedia, or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades )

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    “I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “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.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)