Denis Diderot

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed…

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African…

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is…

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation…

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius…

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you…