Denis Diderot Quotes about Literature

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You have to make it happen.

Denis Diderot

Literature, Happens, Make It Happen

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Denis Diderot

Believe, Atheism, Literature

Denis Diderot, David J. Adams (2000). “Thoughts on the interpretation of nature: and other philosophical works”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Denis Diderot

Order, Literature, Sometimes

Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

Inspirational, Literature, Doe

"Dictionary of Foreign Quotations" by Mary Collison, p. 235, 1980.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Denis Diderot

Men, Literature, Dignity

Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Denis Diderot

Divorce, Population, Literature

Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan