They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.
Denis DiderotWhether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
Denis DiderotI have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
Denis DiderotOne must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.
Denis Diderot