Denis Diderot1713–1784The quotations of
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist
1713–1784
15 quotes, most often on Genius, Truth & Lies and Time.
- Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
- Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
On Dramatic Poetry (1758)- On the Interpretation of Nature (1753), No. 50
- Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
- Conversations with a Christian Lady (1774)
- Oeuvres complètes, vol. 7, p. 678
- On Dramatic Poetry (1758)
Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.
Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions.
Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)- Salon of 1767 (1798), Oeuvres esthétiques
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
Pensées Philosophiques (1746), No. 29- Elements of Physiology (1875), “Will, Freedom”
- “Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage” (1796)
- Pensées philosophiques (1746), No. 1, as translated in Otis Fellows, Diderot (1977), p. 39
