Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
Denis DiderotIn general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
Denis DiderotThis root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?
Denis DiderotWhether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
Denis Diderot