There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
Denis DiderotIt is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
Denis DiderotWhich is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
Denis DiderotI like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
Denis DiderotAll things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
Denis DiderotThe first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!
Denis Diderot