A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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 DiderotWhatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
Denis DiderotTo describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
Denis Diderot